GLASUL COCORILOR: DESPRE PATRIMONIUL MUZICAL UCRAINEAN AL GRUPULUI VOCAL FONDATOR „ZADUNAISKA SICI” – TULCEA
THE VOICE OF THE CRANES: ABOUT THE UKRAINIAN MUSICAL HERITAGE OF THE FOUNDING VOCAL GROUP „ZADUNAISKA SICI” – TULCEA

Summary/Abstract: Created at the beginning of the 1990s, in a period of identity reconfiguration, the vocal group “Zadunaiska Sici” of the Tulcea branch of the Union of the Ukrainians of Romania accumulated, in time, a rich musical repertoire, of over 100 artistic creations, which is at the same time endowed with dense meanings and motives with historical, ethnic, and cultural value (e.g. the Cossack, the guelder-rose, the Danube, destiny). Starting with the old Cranes’ song, Juravka, and the carols learnt from the grandparents, to the song heard during a visit in the most distant town in the Ukraine, rehearsed and eventually learnt on the way back home, but also to the repertoire brought from the region of Zaporizhzhia by an illustrious conductor, who polished the voices of the group’s members for almost two years, all these successive strata of artistic creations are the unwritten witnesses of the group’s micro- historiography, against the background of identity searches and adjustments, of the specific contexts of stage performance and of the competition for prestige within the community.

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