Emily
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...
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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...
Emily
- Feb 7, 2021
Čaglavcanke sve devojke (92)
This song has been stuck in my head for months. With the help of this fellow (who I cannot endorse on anything other than his notes on...
Emily
- Jan 27, 2021
Banaćankso kolo, ko ga ne bi vol’o? (41)
The second song we will look at in our series on Velika Narodna Lira, the first in the “B” section, is a kolo song. The name once again...
Emily
- Jan 24, 2021
Aj, od kako sam sevdah svez’o (1)
The first song in Velika Narodna Lira, which is organized in alphabetical order, is “Aj, od kako sam sevdah svez’o.” It is a sevdalinka,...
Emily
- Jan 10, 2021
Velika Narodna Lira: 1000 Pesama Naroda Jugolslavije: An Introduction
I visited the Belgrade Book Fair twice in October 2019, and on the second go around I found this book, Velika Narodna Lira: 1000 Pesama...
Emily
- Jan 1, 2021
24 Nice Things From the Ottoman Ecumene that I Listened to in 2020 (In No Particular Order)
Writing a list instead of a real first blog post is kind of like easing into the ocean by standing in the shallows for five minutes,...
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