Ukrainian Folklore Sound Files on line and Searchable

[nataliek at UALBERTA.CA]

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce another exciting web page.  Please go to
http://projects.tapor.ualberta.ca/UkraineAudio/  From this page you will be
able to access all of the sound files that I recorded in Central Ukraine
between the years 1998 and 2000, or about 150 hours of sound.  What makes this
page special and ground breaking is that all of the sound files are indexed,
thanks to the careful and thoughtful work of our graduate student, Svitlana
Kukharenko.  Indexing means that you can find a topic on our keyword list,
click on the topic, and go directly to the sound recording where that topic is
being discussed.

The project for which the files were recorded had to do with family or life
cycle rituals: weddings, birth rites, baptisms, funerals.  At the same time,
all sorts of other material came up: personal recollections, stories about
house spirits or domovyky, stories about the unquiet dead and their 
return. Our interviewees told me etiological and anecdotal narratives 
to educate me. Since my field partner is interested in tales, a number 
of them are included.

When you go to the TAPoR page, you will find a list of keywords.  Those 
are the
topics covered in the sound files indexed so far.  Click on the topic.  You
will see one or more recordings.  Click on the recording.

You will also find a list of the topics on the entire tape that you 
have pulled
up.   Should you want to listen to something you see on the list, drag the
pointer to the appropriate number of the file and click play.  If this is not
clear from my explanation, it will be when you see the website.

In addition to crediting Svitlana Kukharenko for her good work, I must also
credit Yue (Eric) Zhang, the programer at TAPoR, and Peter Holloway, our
resident digital expert.  They deserve the credit for the programming behind
this ground-breaking module.


Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
Phone: 780-492-6810
Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/

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