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The Oral SingerinContext:Halil Bajgorić, Guslar*

The Oral SingerinContext:Halil Bajgorić, Guslar* JOHN MILES FOLEY The Oral Singer in C o n t e x t : Halil BajgoriÄ � , Guslar* Halil Bajgoric lived in the small upland village o f Dabrica in the region o f Stolac, that area o f central Hercegovina where Milman Parry and Albert Lord began their collection o f Serbo-Croatian oral traditional texts in 1933- 35.1 Halil was a fine singer; his repertoire included some thirty epske pesme, not a few o f them long and elaborately sung. In the present paper I will place him and his songs in a series o f three contexts. In the first section, his description o f the ideal guslar ("singer") will be presented alongside a similar description given by Ibrahim Basin, another singer from Stolac; afterward, analogous figures from the Old English poetic tradition will be adduced. The second context involves two versions o f the "heroic o a t h " theme2 from Halil's performances o f Kraljevic Marko and Nina o d Kostuna and two instances o f the corresponding multiform from Beowulf. Finally, the "Ready- ing the hero's horse" theme is briefly compared in structure and internal dynamics to the "feast scenes" http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

The Oral SingerinContext:Halil Bajgorić, Guslar*

FOLEY, JOHN MILES
Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 12 (2): 230 – Jan 1, 1978
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© 1978 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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10.1163/221023978X00024
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JOHN MILES FOLEY The Oral Singer in C o n t e x t : Halil BajgoriÄ � , Guslar* Halil Bajgoric lived in the small upland village o f Dabrica in the region o f Stolac, that area o f central Hercegovina where Milman Parry and Albert Lord began their collection o f Serbo-Croatian oral traditional texts in 1933- 35.1 Halil was a fine singer; his repertoire included some thirty epske pesme, not a few o f them long and elaborately sung. In the present paper I will place him and his songs in a series o f three contexts. In the first section, his description o f the ideal guslar ("singer") will be presented alongside a similar description given by Ibrahim Basin, another singer from Stolac; afterward, analogous figures from the Old English poetic tradition will be adduced. The second context involves two versions o f the "heroic o a t h " theme2 from Halil's performances o f Kraljevic Marko and Nina o d Kostuna and two instances o f the corresponding multiform from Beowulf. Finally, the "Ready- ing the hero's horse" theme is briefly compared in structure and internal dynamics to the "feast scenes"

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Published: Jan 1, 1978

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