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Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity (Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities)
Balkan Epic Song History Modernity - Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
Author: Philip V. Bohlman
Since antiquity the epic has been the defining poetic and musical genre of southeastern Europe. Performed by specialist singers, usually accompanying themselves on stringed instruments, Balkan epics unfold narratively and with single lines, often over the course of hours or even days, requiring great feats of memory and creativity. Stories and h...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780810877993
ISBN-10: 0810877996
Publication Date: 9/1/2011
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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