Download PDF by Richard March: The Tamburitza Tradition: From the Balkans to the American

By Richard March

ISBN-10: 0299296040

ISBN-13: 9780299296049

The Tamburitza Tradition is a full of life and well-illustrated entire advent to a Balkan folks song that now additionally prospers in groups all through Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Tamburitza beneficial properties acoustic stringed tools, ranging in dimension from tamburas as small as a ukulele to ones as huge as a bass viol.

Folklorist Richard March records the centuries-old origins and improvement of the culture, together with its intertwining with nationalist and ethnic symbolism. The track survived the complicated politics of nineteenth-century Europe yet is still some degree of competition this present day. In Croatia, tamburitza is strongly linked to nationwide identification and supported through a creative and academic infrastructure. Serbia is happy with its remarkable performers and composers who've prompted tamburitza bands on 4 continents. within the usa, tamburitza used to be introduced by way of Balkan immigrants within the 19th century and has turn into a flourishing American ethnic tune with its personal set of representational politics.

Combining old examine with in-depth interviews and broad participant-observer description, The Tamburitza Tradition unearths a dynamic and expressive song culture on either side of the Atlantic and past, illuminating the cultures and societies from which it has emerged.

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Although contemporary scholars in the former Yugoslav republics have rejected these older notions regarding folklorism, proponents of these very notions had a significant influence on musicians and on members of folk dance groups and their audiences. As graduates of university ethnology programs, they held posts in museums, local administration bureaus, or cultural organizations. They were in direct contact with the performers; they organized folk festivals and set the criteria whereby a group might be eligible to participate.

For nearly five centuries, until 1908, Šturlić and the Bosanska Krajina region of which it is a part represented the westernmost holdings of the Ottoman Empire, and today the region still is the home of a native Islamic culture. On the Turkish side of the border, Ottoman civilization made a lasting cultural imprint, yet just across the man-made line, in the lands that comprised the Austrian Empire’s Military Frontier, only a few obviously Ottoman cultural elements can be found. The Military Frontier was a region of fortresses and towers, populated by refugees from the southeast who were settled there by the Austrians to be the first line of defense against Turkish incursions (Clissold 1966, 27–31).

In a pioneering article, Hans Moser suggested Folklorismus as an alternative to “applied folkloristics” (Bausinger 1961, 50–51). According to Moser, folklorism “involved a double phenomenon: general interest . . in everything ‘folk’ and for all the pockets of ‘folksiness’ in which life still has particularity and authenticity, strength and color, or at least seems that it has” (Moser 1962, 180). Often relying on indirect transmission through the media, folklorism was usually presented in Introduction 11 the form of selected attractive items that purported to originate in folk culture.

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