Emily
Ljubismo se, hej, lane moje (434)
To read about my project on Velika Narodna Lira, see my introduction post here. I absolutely love this up-tempo number. There is very...
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Emily
- Jun 18
Lastavice, lasto, grom te ubio (414)
It's been a while! I'm back with a short little Velika Narodna Lira post about a song I've been singing for months. Enjoy! Lastavice,...
Emily
- Dec 31, 2022
16 things I listened to from the Ottoman ecumene in 2022
This has been a crazy year for Emily in the Ottoman Ecumene. My blog post on Konstrakta reached almost 800 people and made a splash on...
Emily
- Dec 11, 2022
Kad su se dva Bracanina (329)
If you’re like me, right about this time of year you start wishing you were by the sea. And what’s better than a good Dalmatian song to...
Emily
- Nov 20, 2022
A few performances in 2022
Although I had the opportunity to perform multiple times in 2022, I’d like to share three that stood out. In May, I went with Ženska...
Emily
- Aug 18, 2022
Emily in the Ottoman Ecumene on the town!
In June, I published my first blog post on a website that is not Emily in the Ottoman Ecumene! Kosovo 2.0 published my piece “Let’s light...
Emily
- Mar 10, 2022
Serbia’s Eurovision entry is NOT a “bizarre” pop song about Meghan Markle’s hair
In the minutes, hours, and days following the announcement that Konstrakta (Ana Đurić) would represent Serbia at Eurovision with her song...
Emily
- Feb 7, 2022
Milkina kuća na kraju (278)
Unlike many of the previous songs, the popular title of this one is the first line of the third verse. This is likely because the lyrics...
Emily
- Jan 5, 2022
Performances in 2021
With the women’s singing group of Bojana Nikolić’s School of Serbian and traditional singing (Ženska pevačka grupa, Škola srpskog i...
Emily
- Jan 1, 2022
21 songs I listened to from the Ottoman ecumene in 2021 (mostly in no particular order)
This year I listened to the same songs over and over again, and although they were excellent, I did not explore as I would have liked to....
Emily
- Aug 4, 2021
Canule, bajole
I've been working on this post for a long time because of the translation, which was a bit tricky! (That's why it's out of alphabetical...
Emily
- Aug 2, 2021
Igralo je zetsko kolo (250)
Today, I arrived in Kotor. It’s the first time I’ve been here in 11 years. And coincidentally, I have a song from the Bay of Kotor (Boka...
Emily
- Jul 11, 2021
Hvalio se žuti limun kraj mora (245)
It's been a long time since my last post! Sorry about that. But I'm back with one of my favorite posts so far. I'm interested to hear...
Emily
- May 1, 2021
Fatiše kolo vranjske devojke (214)
We have again arrived at a kolo song, this time from the southern Serbian town of Vranje. Fatiše kolo vranjske devojke (2 puta) Vranjske...
Emily
- Apr 25, 2021
Evo ovu rumen ružu (195)
We are back, with another sevdalinka. This one may have been first performed by Zaim Imamović. He sings slightly different lyrics than...
Emily
- Apr 4, 2021
Džanum, na sred sela (194)
I love a good film song. So many folk songs in Yugoslavia were popularized through film, and I, too, often learn new songs by watching...
Emily
- Mar 14, 2021
Da je višnja k'o trešnja (124)
One of the most difficult things for a person learning Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian as a foreign language is to remember the...
Emily
- Mar 8, 2021
Đaurko mila (186)
Đaurko mila, tuga me mori Za oči tvoje, što suze rone. Ustašca tvoja, prepuna baja – Ah, dođi, dođi sred zagrljaja! Znaš kako srce umilno...
Emily
- Feb 27, 2021
Daleko mi je biser Jadrana (112)
This song takes me back to some of my first experiences in the Balkans. In 2010, I enrolled in a summer course in Dubrovnik, Croatia,...
Emily
- Feb 14, 2021
Ćero mila, ćero mila (110)
Finally, we have come to a song that I cannot find a trace of on the Internet. It's interesting that some of the songs in this book have...
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