Съвременно гусларско творчество
Contemporary Gusla Works

Summary/Abstract: The research is about the contemporary gusla works in two layers – old (songs about heroes and events mainly in the period of the First World War and the Second World War) and new (heroes and events from the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century). There are differentiated three song groups: epic, lyric and songs with mosaic structure. The current study initiates a new source which is the commercial recordings (records and tape records) in contrast to the previous researches of the gusla practice among the South Slavonians. There are described the peculiarities of the songs with gusla accompaniment and the system of their nowadays function. The researcher pays attention on the role of the recordings and market. There are studied important issues of the contemporary gusla practice in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia: a song content and form (theme, structure), connections with the literature (works of Petr Negosh), models of the author and the singer-instrumentalist, the relations gusla works – history – politics, the woman’s position, etc.

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