Prinosi tradicijskoj glazbenoj kulturi zapadne Hercegovine
Contribution to traditional musical culture of Western Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the traditional songs, dances and musical instruments of Croats in western Herzegovina. It discusses the types of songs, occasions in which they are implemented and their content which clearly testifies their creators to the intelligence and ability to improvise. There is a mention of folk music instruments and how the people used plants and animals that they had in their surroundings for instrument production. Every dance in Hercegovina people called kolo, and the kolo was occasion for conversation, laughter, joy, and acquaintances. The authorities systematically suppress all national and Christian traditional, but there’s a lot of goods are preserved. Unfortunately, a lot of the songs fall into oblivion, but after the democratic changes and the dissolution of the former state it began the revival of this culture. The songs and dances are the memory of our ancestors and they are linguistic, ethnological, anthropological and theological traditional treasures of a nation today.

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