EmilyJun 25, 2023Ljubismo 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...
EmilyJun 18, 2023Lastavice, 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,...
EmilyNov 20, 2022A few performances in 2022Although 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...
EmilyAug 18, 2022Emily 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...
EmilyJan 5, 2022Performances in 2021 With the women’s singing group of Bojana Nikolić’s School of Serbian and traditional singing (Ženska pevačka grupa, Škola srpskog i...
EmilyMay 1, 2021Fatiše 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...
EmilyApr 4, 2021Džanum, 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...