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Cossack Songs of Dnipropetrovsk Region: A Tradition Under UNESCO Safeguarding

A C1 Ukrainian reading on the Cossack songs of Dnipropetrovsk region, inscribed in 2016 on UNESCO's Urgent Safeguarding List: three groups, the order of voices, family transmission and threats.

Пісні, яким не потрібна сцена

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Cohesion in a Ukrainian cultural essay: a restrained contrast («Ці пісні співають не для публіки, а для себе»), summarising and causal links between paragraphs («Ці три поняття добре підсумовують сказане», «Тому в описі ЮНЕСКО ця традиція тримається не на афіші»), and source attribution («За описом ЮНЕСКО»).

Based on UNESCO's description, the essay presents the Cossack songs of Dnipropetrovsk region: their themes, the three groups named in the nomination, the order in which voices enter, singing without the need for an audience, family transmission, the singers' ages at the time of nomination, the threats and Ukraine's periodic reports.

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