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UKRAINE: Great Transformations is an archival platform of oral histories and records of huge changes in the structure of Ukrainian peasant culture of the 1920s and 1930s, instrumental music, and traditional practices of kobzars and lyre players. Recordings and research were carried out by the Kyiv NGO Center for the Study Oral History and Culture in the 1990s under the leadership and participation of ethnomusicologist William Noll (USA). www.greattransformations-ua.org online platform is open to other private archives, records of artistic and socio-cultural practices of the 20th century in Ukraine.
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Interviews with older villagers in central and eastern Ukraine. The collected testimonies serve as primary sources for the analysis of the dramatic socio-cultural changes of 1920-1930

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Interviews with musicians from different regions of Ukraine. The focus of the research is musical performance practices from rural instrumental musicians in various regions; another focus is women's singing groups, especially those performing ritual chants.

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Music recordings and interviews with the last of those performing at that time on a real kobza and lira, including Heorhii Tkachenko (Kyiv), Anatolii Parfinenko (Kharkiv), Mykola Budnyk (Irpin) and many others.

The "Great Transformations" online platform is open to other private archives, records of artistic and socio-cultural practices of 20th century in Ukraine.

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