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Women Playing the Bandura

Challenging Discourses of Nationhood
Authors: Ostashewski, Marcia;

Women Playing the Bandura

Abstract

À titre d’instrument de musique national en Ukraine, le bandura évoque des récits nationaux contradictoires et conflictuels. Dans cet article, l’auteure présente un bref historique du bandura, à l’occasion duquel elle aborde le rôle de cet instrument dans le processus contemporain de construction de la nation, les pratiques de performance qui y sont liées et les questions auxquelles il donne lieu en lien avec le genre. Elle se penche sur les contextes dans lesquels deux modèles principaux d’exécution du bandura sont pratiqués, en relation avec le cas particulier du Bandura Festival 2000. Les entrevues avec la joueuse de bandura Nadia Tarnawska révèlent comment le Bandura Festival 2000 fonctionne à l’intérieur même et comme partie prenante de la continuelle construction de l’histoire de l’instrument et des discours d’« ukrainitude ». Les expériences de Tarnawska fournissent une illustration poignante de la nature de ce discours en relation avec le Bandura Festival 2000, la production musicale ukrainienne, plus généralement, et l’ensemble des questions liées au genre et à l’indépendance de la nation. Pour cette raison, l’auteure traite de la place des histoires de vie dans le large contexte du changement dans les pratiques musicales.

As Ukraine’s national instrument, the bandura evokes contradictory and conflicting national narratives. In this article, the author provides a brief history of the bandura, including its role in Ukraine’s modem nation-building process, its performance practices and issues relating to gender. She examines contexts within which two main bandura performance styles are practiced, by relating them to specific events at the Bandura Festival 2000. Interviews with bandura player Nadia Tarnawska reveal how the Bandura Festival 2000 functions within and as a part of the continuing construction of the instruments history, and discourses of Ukrainianness. Tarnawska’s experiences constitute a poignant illustration of the nature of these discourses in relation to the Bandura Festival 2000, Ukrainian musical production more generally, and wider issues relating to gender and nationhood. For this reason, the author discusses the place of life stories in the larger context of changing musical practices.

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