Balkan epic : song, history, modernity /

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Imprint:Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2012.
Description:xix, 353 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.).
Language:English
Series:Europea : ethnomusicologies and modernities ; no. 11
Europea ; no. 11.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8562676
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Other authors / contributors:Bohlman, Philip V., 1952-
Petković-Djordjević, Nada.
ISBN:9780810877993 (cloth : alk. paper)
0810877996 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:CD commentary and notes on (p. 311-335) with lyrics in Serbian with English translation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Epos and the longuee durée. Subverted epic oral tradition in South Slavic written literatures / Bogdan Raki ; Why does epic survive? : a comparison of Balkan oral traditions / Margaret Beissinger ; Historiographic heterophony : song and the narration of the timeless present / Philip V. Bohlman
  • Sounding the local. Songs with Lahutë and their music / Ardian Ahmedaja ; Contemporary forms of singing to the accompaniment of gusle in Serbia and Montenegro / Dimitrije O. Golemovi ; Professionals : Croatian gusle players at the turn of the millennium / Jaka Primorac and Joko Aleta
  • The Balkan beat and Balkan borders. Remapping songs in the Balkans : bilingual Albanian singers of the Milman Parry collection / Nicola Scaldaferri ; Old men singing : heroic masculinity among the Serbs / Tomislav Longinovi ; Singing epic songs to bowed lute : views from Croatia / Svanibor Pettan ; Serbian turbo-epics : genres, intertextuality, and the play of ironies / Marko Ivkovi.