Uticaj makamske muzičke kulture na modernu sevdalinku: primjer makama hidžaz
The Influence of Makam Musical Culture on Modern Sevdalinka: The Example of Makam Hijaz

Summary/Abstract: Sevdalinka, an urban love song of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has sprung from a local oral melopoetic tradition that had been under the strong influence of Ottoman musical culture over several centuries. As part of the modernization of musical traditions in the 19th and 20th centuries, professional performers of Sevdalinka gradually adopted a modern twelve-tone system by using tempered instruments such as the accordion. That process resulted in what we today might call “modern Sevdalinka”. The main thesis of this article is that certain elements inherited from oral musical practices not only survived this change but were also preferred in the modern transformation of the repertoire. Particularly prominent among them were influences from the Ottoman musical culture that can still be recognized in the melodic idioms of Sevdalinka today. One among them, “makam hijaz”, can be seen as representative of this whole process and is recognized even in authorship within modern Sevdalinka.

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