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EMILY IN THE OTTOMAN ECUMENE
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Emily
Jun 25, 2023
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, 2023
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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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,...
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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...
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