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Author

Peeva, Adela.

Title

Whose is this song? [electronic resource] / by Adela Peeva.

Published

Watertown (Mass.) : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2003.

Physical Description

1 online resource (70 min.)

Local Notes

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Notes

Previously released on DVD.

Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 3, 2011).

Filmed in Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia, and Bulgaria.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.

Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Albanian, Greek, and Turkish with English subtitles.

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Summary

In her search for the true origins of a haunting melody, the filmmaker travels to Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria. The trip is filled with humor, suspense, tragedy and surprise as each country s citizens passionately claim the song to be their own and can even furnish elaborate histories for its orgins.

Variant and related titles

Ethnographic video online.

Format

Images / Online / Video & Film

Added to Catalog

March 07, 2012

Subjects

National songs > Balkan Peninsula > History and criticism.

Folk music > Balkan Peninsula > History and criticism.

Folk songs > Balkan Peninsula > History and criticism.

National characteristics, Balkan.

Ethnomusicology.