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Dimitrije O. Golemovic - Balkan Refrain - 9780810867376 - V9780810867376
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Balkan Refrain

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Description for Balkan Refrain Mixed media pr. Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies & Modernities. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVW; AVA; AVGH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
While the refrain is a frequent and important feature of folk singing, little has been written on it and what it can achieve. Balkan Refrain: Form and Tradition in European Folk Song attempts to establish what refrain actually is and how it can be defined in folk and scholarly practice based on musical examples from Serbia, Montenegro, and the Republic of Srpska, with the aim of finding general rules applicable to refrains in the songs of other nations. The refrain is observed from musical and linguistic perspectives, as well as its religious, social, and economical uses. As refrain is so ... Read more

Product Details

Publication date
2010
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Series
Europea: Ethnomusicologies & Modernities
Number of Pages
236
Format
Multiple-component retail product
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810867376
SKU
V9780810867376
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Dimitrije O. Golemovic
Dimitrije O. Golemovic is professor of ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and author of Folk Music of the Podrinje Region (1987).

Reviews for Balkan Refrain
Whatever its contents, this book would be worthy of note simply because it has been published in English...Dimitrije Golemovic's study opens up a world that, while it will have fascinated many, will also have frustrated many who have no access to publications in Serbian and related languages. It is a greatly revised translation of the author’s study published in Serbian ... Read more

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