To read about my project on Velika Narodna Lira, see my introduction post here. I absolutely love this up-tempo number. There is very...

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,...

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...

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...

With the women’s singing group of Bojana Nikolić’s School of Serbian and traditional singing (Ženska pevačka grupa, Škola srpskog i...

We have again arrived at a kolo song, this time from the southern Serbian town of Vranje. Fatiše kolo vranjske devojke (2 puta) Vranjske...

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...