Village stories from Bukovlje #34 - Singing in the village

There were songs spondaneously sung in the village, especially when the children took their cattle to pasture, that have a structural origin that recalls the epic verse sung across Yugoslavia in the past. And, according to a certain Milman Parry who researched the epic verse sung in Yugoslavia back in the 1930s, these perhaps have a connection with the heroic verses, The Iliad and the Odyssey.This film looks at some of the theories of Milman Parry's research that sheds light on the form of the village song once heard in Bukovlje.

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