Music in the BalkansThis book asks how a study of many different musics in South East Europe can help us understand the construction of cultural traditions, East and West. It crosses boundaries of many kinds, political, cultural, repertorial and disciplinary. Above all, it seeks to elucidate the relationship between politics and musical practice in a region whose art music has been all but written out of the European story and whose traditional music has been subject to appropriation by one ideology after another. South East Europe, with its mix of ethnicities and religions, presents an exceptionally rich field of study in this respect. The book will be of value to anyone interested in intersections between pre-modern and modern cultures, between empires and nations and between culture and politics. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Part One Balkan Geographies | 7 |
Part Two Historical Layers | 125 |
Part Three Music in Transition | 273 |
Part Four Eastern Europe | 413 |
Part Five Global Balkans | 547 |
Glossary | 669 |
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agenda albanian art music associated athens Balkans bands Belgrade Bosnia and herzegovina Bulgaria Byzantine čalgija centre chant chapter choral classical music Communist communities composers composition concert context Croatian culture dance developed discussed distinctive earlier early eastern elements empire enescu ensembles epic especially established ethnic european festivals folk music folklore folksong genre Greece Greek habsburg identity ideology idiom increasingly instruments Kalomiris Kosovo late later Macedonia major makam melody Mevlevî Milošević modern modernist movement music history music-making musicians Muslim narrative nationalist nineteenth century notably opera orchestra oriental Ottoman particular performed piano political pop-folk popular music post-war rebetika recordings region repertories ritual role roma romanian Sarajevo Sephardic serbian serbs sevdalinka significant Slavenski Slovenia social Sonata songs South east europe south slav Soviet story style symbolic symphony territories theatre tion traditional music turbo-folk turkish urban violin voice Vojvodina West western wider Yugoslav Yugoslavia Zagreb