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Title: Wild Songs, Sweet Songs
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord
Author: Nicola Scaldaferri
Contributor: Victor A. Friedman (With), John Kolsti (With), Zymer U. Neziri (With), Nicola Scaldaferri (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0674271335
EAN: 9780674271333
ISBN: 9780674271333
Publisher: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Topic: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 09/28/2021
Description:

In the 1930s, Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord, two pioneering scholars of oral poetry, conducted adventurous fieldwork in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and northern Albania, collecting singularly important examples of Albanian epic song. Wild Songs, Sweet Songs presents these materials, which have not previously been published, for the first time.

Nicola Scaldaferri and his collaborators provide a complete catalogue of the Albanian texts and recordings collected by Parry and Lord; a selection of twelve of the most significant texts, including the longest Albanian epic ever collected, in Albanian with accompanying English translations; four essays contextualizing the materials and outlining their significance; and an assortment of related photographs and documents. The book is an authoritative guide to one of the most significant collections of Balkan folk epic in existence.

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