THE WEDDING SONG OF THE BULGARIANS FROM GOLOBORDA REGION, ALBANIA, AND ITS DIALECT VARIANTS Cover Image

СВАТБЕНИТЕ ПЕСНИ НА БЪЛГАРИТЕ ОТ ОБЛАСТТА ГОЛО БЪРДО, АЛБАНИЯ И ТЕХНИТЕ ДИАЛЕКТНИ ВАРИАНТИ
THE WEDDING SONG OF THE BULGARIANS FROM GOLOBORDA REGION, ALBANIA, AND ITS DIALECT VARIANTS

Author(s): Veselka Toncheva
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Customs / Folklore, Music, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Асоциация за антропология, етнология и фолклористика ОНГЬЛ
Keywords: bulgarian wedding songs; Golloborda Region; Albania; ritual female song repertoire;

Summary/Abstract: This paper compares textual and musical variants of wedding songs from Golloborda Region, Albania, which are known and popular in the territory of Bulgaria and Republic of Macedonia. Golloborda is a Bulgarian populated region that remained in the territory of Republic of Albania when it became an independent state (1912‒1913), but the defined state borders do not change its dialectical unity with Pirin, Vardar, and Aеgean Macedonia. Variants of "Gollobordian" songs exist in territories located to the east of Albania in the ritual female song repertoire, as an older stratum. The relation is at the typological level – certain types of songs are presented at key moments of the ritual and there is propinquity in textual and musical content.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 9-32
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bulgarian
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