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Bosnian root music is a polyphonic, or more commonly heterophonic music, which is usually sung by two singers. The first singer starts the song, and after some number of syllables the other joins in. Intervals used in this type of singing are minor and major second, which is characteristic for most of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian music, and some parts of Croatia.
"Modern" folk was referred to as "novokomponovana narodna muzika" ("newly composed folk music") for a while, although the term went out of use in favor of simply "narodna" or "folk". It is based on various influences, sevdah stories with music of Serbia and/or Turkey often with incorporated elements of pop music .
Izvorna TV is a Bosnian commercial cable television channel based in Živinice, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This television channel mainly broadcasts music videos in the genres of Bosnian root music , turbo-folk , sevdah and other programs related to local music and folk traditions.
This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. The term folk music can not be easily defined in a precise manner; it is used with widely varying definitions depending on the author, intended audience and context within a work.
Sateliti is a Bosnian root music group, formed in 1989. Today, they are the most popular root music group in Bosnia. The original singer and founder of the group, Muto, is still with the group and is the main vocalist.
The origins of Sevdalinka are not known for certain, although it is known to date at least as far back as to the arrival of the Ottomans in the medieval Balkans.Their melodies and the venerable lyrical figure of "Aman, aman" hint at a Sephardic and Andalusian influence, which can be explained by the arrivals of Sephardic refugees into Ottoman Bosnia, or more likely attributed to an Ottoman ...
Polovina was born on 11 March 1927 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.His father, Mušan Polovina, was an Austro-Hungarian soldier during World War I.During his service in Ljubljana, he met and married Ivanka Hlebec, making Himzo Polovina the child of an ethnically mixed marriage between a Bosniak father and a Slovene mother.
Map of the Sava river basin, with Posavina encompassing only the inner regions, near and along the river Sava itself (green).. Posavina (Serbian Cyrillic: Посавина) is a geographical region that stretches along the Sava river, encompassing only the inner areas of the Sava river basin, that are adjacent or near to the Sava river itself, namely catch region spanning from the Julian Alps ...