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Key facts
- Intangible heritage.Name
- Safeguarding programme of kobza and wheel lyre tradition
- Intangible heritage.Year
- 2024
- Intangible heritage.ID
- 02136
- Intangible heritage.State Party
- Ukraine
- Intangible heritage.Region
- ENA
- Intangible heritage.List
- Good Safeguarding
- Intangible heritage.Session
- 19th
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Encyclopedic overview
24 sectionsContents
- History
- Kozak Mamai and early origins
- Blindness
- Apprenticeship
- Repertoire
- Social role and travel
- Role of guides
- Contribution of women
- Organization
- Schools
- Guilds
- ''Kobzari'' and ''lirnyky''
- End of kobzardom
- Soviet appropriation
- Re-establishment of the tradition
- Preservation of kobzar music
- Notable kobzars
- Other uses of the term
- In media
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Kozak Mamai playing a kobza
A kobzar ( ; ) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment. The professional kobzar tradition was established in Ukraine during the Cossack Era around the 16th century. Kobzari were often blind and became predominantly so by the 1800s. The word literally means 'player of kobza', a Ukrainian stringed instrument of the lute family. More broadly, the term is given for a performer of the musical material associated with the kobzar tradition.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “kobzar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.