“Wait for me, the setting sun, just to sew together my brother’s sleeves”: Family songs from Beli Timok (fieldwork material)

Folkloristics 8/1-2 (2023):
Author: Zoja Karanović and Vesna Đukić
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The contribution features Serbian traditional songs noted down by Zoja Karanović and Vesna Đukić in the villages around Beli Timok in 1997 and 1998. They are a segment of thirty-one songs displaying family relations themes and motifs from an up-till-now unpublished and significantly larger collection. That is the reason why, for lack of a more appropriate term, they are classified as family songs.

Keywords: fieldwork, villages around Beli Timok, Serbian traditional songs, family songs, female singers, female tellers.