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Hardcover Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity Book

ISBN: 0810877996

ISBN13: 9780810877993

Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity

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 histories converge in the Balkan epic, defining moments of conflict between empires and religions in the...

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