RURAL MUSICAL CULTURE OF MIGRANTS FROM DINARIC REGIONS SETTLED IN CENTRAL SERBIA
RURAL MUSICAL CULTURE OF MIGRANTS FROM DINARIC REGIONS SETTLED IN CENTRAL SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: Specific culture of the inhabitants of the Dinaric mountains region in the Western Balkans has already been observed primarily by ethnographers, antropogeographers and historians, and in recent times also by ethnomusicologists. This paper is dedicated to intriguing subject of the elements of Dinaric traditional rural musical idiom in the regions where these people settled in central Serbia mainly through their intensive and large migrations during the 19th century. The prominent elements of their rural musical traditions – interrelations of the folklore genres and melodic models, different structure and stylistic elements – have been kept as recognizable and compact in hilly and mountain regions on the West, but were changed and evolved in new musical forms (mixtures with the elements of other musical traditions/sensibilities) in the East, lowlands of the central Serbia.

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