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  serbia - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Serbia and Yugoslavia were among the countries that had the greatest losses in the war: 1,700,000 (10.8% of the population) people were killed and national damages were estimated at 9.1 billion dollars according to the prices of that period.
Serbia and Montenegro opted to stay on in the federation and at the combined session of the parliaments of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro held on April 27 1992 in Belgrade, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was passed thus reaffirming the continuity of the state first founded on December 1 1918.
Serbia's terrain ranges from the rich, fertile plains of the northern Vojvodina region, limestone ranges and basins in the east, and, in the southeast, ancient mountains and hills.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Serbia   (5091 words)

  
 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Serbia
The Republic of Serbia (in Serbian Република Србија or Republika Srbija) is a republic in south-eastern Europe which is united with Montenegro in a loose commonwealth known as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Serbia is located in the Balkans (an historically and geographically distinct region of southeastern Europe) and in the Pannonian Plain (an region of central Europe).
In English this region is often called "Serbia proper" to denote "the part of the Republic of Serbia not including the provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo; the ethnic and political core of the Serbian state", as the Library of Congress puts it [3].
www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Serbia   (5050 words)

  
 Music of Serbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Music of Serbia presents a mixture of traditional music, which is part of the wider Balkan tradition, with its own distinctive sound, and various Western, Turkish and Hungarian influences.
Church music was performed throughout Serbia by choirs or individual singers, led by a conductor.
There was Yugoslav popular music which was well-known in Serbia, and abroad, and later, in the chaos of the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, turbo-folk became popular and associated with nationalist violence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Serbia   (1265 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Ceca: Serbia's singing heroine
Ceca is Serbia's most famous pop star - but equally well-known for being the widow of the country's paramilitary leader Zeljko Raznatovic, also known as Arkan.
Professionally I started music at the age of 14, that was when my first record came out.
Music was my vocation, my greatest love from early childhood, and I was fully aware, even when I was young, of what I would be deprived of.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/2043291.stm   (685 words)

  
 Serbia - Photos, Maps, Videos, Flags, Facts, More -- National Geographic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
On June 5, 2006, the Republic of Serbia declared its independence and became the successor state to the union of Serbia and Montenegro—two days after Montenegro had proclaimed its own independence from the union.
From the beginning, Serbia, the largest Yugoslav republic in area and population, sought to dominate Yugoslavia.
Serbia's brutal war in Kosovo, starting in 1998, caused Montenegro to distance itself from Slobodan Milosevic and his Yugoslav government.
www3.nationalgeographic.com /places/countries/country_serbia.html   (541 words)

  
 serbian music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Serbia is a country of the Balks and it has been ravaged by war.
Indigenous folk Serbian music, which is called narodna muzika in the Serbian language, continues to remains popular.
The Vlach minority in northeastern Serbia is related to the popular music of Romania.
www.musicbeats.net /serbian_music.htm   (381 words)

  
 Balkanarama: Serbia
A collection of traditional Serbian music, some in modern styles.
Frula Show is a Serbian band in the U.S. Orkestar Oplenac may also be based in the U.S. The Sonia Marinkovich Ensemble at the University of Novi Sad houses ethnic orchestras, a dance ensemble and other cultural activities.
The Amala School near Valjevo offers workshops in Serbian Rom music, dance and folklore, and has a good collection of more than 40 songs and lyrics from former Yugoslavia.
balkanarama.com /serbia.htm   (289 words)

  
 Serbian culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Church music in Serbia of the time was based on the Osmoglasnik a cycle of religious songs based on the resurrection and lasting for eight weeks.
In Serbia, the state television station was known as RTB and became known as RTS after the breakup of Yugoslavia.
As at 2005, Dragan Kojadinović was the Minister for Culture in Serbia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serbian_culture   (2077 words)

  
 University of Oregon School of Music and Dance: Academic Studies: Music for Nonmajors
The School of Music and Dance offers a variety of opportunities for nonmajors to be involved in music courses and performance ensembles.
Traces blues music from its African and African American roots through its 20th-century history and its influence on the values of jazz, rhythm and blues, and country music.
Examines the role of gender in shaping the music that is created, performed, taught, and listened to in representative cultures of the world, including the West.
www.uoregon.edu /~music/AcademicStudies/UGradStudies/nonmajor.html   (931 words)

  
 B92.MUSIC
She graduated from the Belgrade University of Musical Arts in the late 1970s and studies under Professor Olga Mihailovic.
Kal are the hottest Gypsy band from the suburbs of Belgrade, rock’n’roll in attitude, fueled on urban beats and rooted in the Balkan blues.
The material which Serboplov presents is rooted in Serbian musical traditions and is chronologically linked with the transition between the 19th and 20th century and can be defined as the music of urbane Serbia.
www.b92.net /music   (468 words)

  
 Branka Parlic | Metamorphosis (The Music Of Philip Glass)
His music has inspired many artists, one of whom is Branka Parlic, a professor and long-time chief advocate of minimalist and avant garde music in Serbia.
The music on this CD was recorded live at the Novi Sad Synagogue, which gives it a spacious feeling.
Glass’ melodies are perfectly made for solo piano, and even though some of the main features in his music have rarely changed through the years, interpreting his music is not an easy task, as whoever plays these melodies will end up associated with his music.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=23161   (499 words)

  
 Relevant Music
Records of what the native musicians thought of the european music they were required to play are rare, but the simple existence of such a variety of native music adapted to those instruments would seem to indicate an eagerness for finding something better suited to native sensibilities.
The sheer variety of musical styles that have developed as a result of this clash of western technology and native cultures all around the world add to the mystery of why these musics have remained such a well kept secret for so long.
Frevo music is typical of the region in the northwest of Brasil and makes for an important part of the repertoire for carnival celebrations, arguably the greatest party ever imagined.
www.relevantmusic.org /worldbands.html   (2077 words)

  
 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Serbia: Guca and Exit Music Festivals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Traditional Guca Trumpet Festival is held anually in Guca, a town hours south of Belgrade, near the city of Cacak, from Aug. 30 to Sept. 3.
Historian Branka Prpa said the Guca festival is a “cultural model of agrarian society which produces that sort of entertainment.” The festival is not problem by itself but in the way political elite and media present it as something essentially and originally indigenous.
Serbia is lucky to have both Guca and its counterpart Exit as it is blessed to have its water polo team, Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic, Olivera Jevtic and other successful sportsmen and sportswomen.
www.globalvoicesonline.org /2006/09/14/serbia-guca-and-exit-music-festivals   (2148 words)

  
 ARC Music Incorporated - World Music Site - South East Europe
The music is pure, raw, often archaic and untouched by external influences - instrumental pieces, unaccompanied solo and polyphonic singing from various regions of Albania.
In the cities Oriental musical elements are to be found, with instruments from the Arab-Persian culture.
This album presents folk music from Slavonia (Croatia).This music is accompanied on tamburica, a plucked lute of Croatia and Vojvodina, which probably derives from an Arab long-necked lute, the tanbur.
www.arcmusic.co.uk /inc/index.php/cPath/59   (685 words)

  
 Serbia & Montenegro Music :: calabashmusic.com
Taraful din Baia - Gypsy Music of Romania - Transylvania, Banat
While studying music in Vienna, dZihan and Kamien decided to form a duo that suggested a newer,...
Continuing with Nordic music, here’s a taste of some of the artists...
music.calabashmusic.com /world/europe/serbia_montenegro   (187 words)

  
 World Music Central - Serbia Served Hot
Gypsy music has no problem turning up the heat in its bigger, brassier incarnations, but the stripped-down format heard here is incendiary as well.
The kicker is that even at breakneck tempos, the pure beauty of the music shines through as the feel moves easily from ominous to evocative to lamenting to party-hearty.
The singular free spirit that Gypsies seem to embody is set to music on this disc, captured for all to enjoy.
www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php?story=20040210015059569   (286 words)

  
 Music @ Mississippi State University: Faculty
These include performances at conferences of the College Music Society, the Society of Composers, Inc. the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers, the New Music North Festival (Canada), Sound New (CA), Summer Music Series (Chester, England), the inaugural ppIANISSIMO festival (Sofia, Bulgaria), and the Sixth International Review of Contemporary Music (Belgrade, Serbia).
He is a member of ASCAP, the College Music Society, the Society of Composers, Inc., and the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers.
National Association of Schools of Music and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
music.msstate.edu /faculty-staff/jbahr.asp   (352 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/prospermusic
Prosper music is fussion of trance, psychedelic trance, electro, progressive and techno music.
Later he connected his organisation with Sonic Tribe organisation and founded one of the biggest electronic music promoting teams in Serbia STS Music that is responsible for many huge parties in the country.
It is oposit to Manibus project, and music of Prosper is described as electro trance with influences of progressive trance.
www.myspace.com /prospermusic   (630 words)

  
 Passion Music mail-order CDs: Traditional folk music from Serbia and Yugoslavia
These recordings were originally made for the 40th anniversary of Janika Balaz musical career in 1986.
Native folk songs from the village of Ljubic in Serbia.
For over 40 years the 'peasants' from the village Ljubic near Cacak (southern Serbia) have sung their traditional choir songs.
www.passiondiscs.com /bulgarian_02/balkan_music_11.htm   (517 words)

  
 Serbian music
In addition to this, he is active in researching old spiritual music, and some of that work is also featured here.
While music played an important role in the Serbian medieval state (from the twelfth to the fifteenth century), official music died out during the period of Turkish enslavement.
The Serbs in Vojvodina (within the borders of the Habsburg empire) once again became involved in European musical trends in the eighteenth century, but they did not forget their traditional roots.
suc.suc.org /culture/music   (197 words)

  
 serbia: Music at cdRoots
Musicians from Kragujevac, Serbia and the legendary Violini di Santa Victoria come together under the direction of the Arabic violinist Ouassini (of the Orchestra Arab-Andalusian of Tangeri) and Serbian musician Alexandra Milojevic create an unusual combination and clash of cultures.
It's a bold move for an immigrant, but the songs carry a potency and the music accompanying them is superb.
Balkan music fans will find plenty to love in the musical accompaniment, too, with it's great sonic mix from a band of accordions, bass, guitars, cimbalom, violins and more.
www.cdroots.com /serbia.shtml   (1376 words)

  
 BELEF04:::Articulation:::Music:::Vrooom (Serbia and Montenegro)
The VROOOM music band was formed at the end of 1997, beginning their activities in Belgrade clubs, using a unique sound (two vocals, guitar, accordion, bass, fretless bass, electronic and acoustic drums) to merge cabaret music, with the melodies of the Balkans and contemporary rhythms of the West (techno, drum'n'bass, trip-hop.).
They won wide recognition as the musical section for the TORPEDO theatre group, in whose plays they performed their music live.
Since 1999, the band has released several albums: TORPEDO MUSIC, a collection of compositions created for plays of the TORPEDO group and a number of "institutionalized" theatres, VENTILACIJA and a live album LIVE IN ZURICH.
www.belef.org /04/music/vrooom.html   (181 words)

  
 Serbia Music News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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www.einnews.com /serbia/newsfeed-serbia-music   (1038 words)

  
 Branko Krsmanovic Group: Music of Serbia and Montenegro Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Across the Atlantic in Eastern Europe, Serbian musicians have similar aspirations: Branko Markovic took over the helm of this outfit in 1949 (the troupe was founded in '45) and led this Serbian folk outfit until his passing in '93.
Music of Serbia and Montenegro is what you'd expect from Music of Any American University.
Perhaps soundtrack work would be appropriate, scoring a History Channel documentary on the political and social ails of Milosevic-era Serbia.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1197/is_4_49/ai_n15944768   (282 words)

  
 Guca Festival, Serbia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Forget Glastonbury, Reading, Burning Man and Cochella: the wildest music festival on earth is a cacophonic and crazy brass band festival that takes place every summer in the tiny Serbian town of Guca (pronounced “Gucha”) in the western region of Dragacevo.
I listen to a totally diferent kind of music, I don't drink and I'm really not a person who would enjoy too many people crowded in one place.
It's not my favourite type of music - I prefer the EXIT festival in Novi Sad - but the atmosphere in Guca makes you forget all that in a minute.
www.thisisthelife.com /en/carnivals-festivals/guca-festival-serbia.htm   (1312 words)

  
 Music of Serbia and Montenegro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Turbo-folk is mostly used as a derogatory term as the music and its protagonists celebrate kemp, hedonism, and even gangster way of living ("Koka-kola, Marlboro, Suzuki" is one of (in) famous popular song titles of the time).
Montenegro - Roma - Romania - Serbia - Republic of Macedonia - Thrace - Turkey
This page was last modified 14:27, 2 November 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro   (789 words)

  
 Various Artists: Carolija 2006, Festival of the New Children’s Music of Serbia - Yu4You.com Music
Music: Carolija 2006, Festival of the New Children’s Music of Serbia
Description: Carolija 2006, Festival of the New Children’s Music of Serbia, children's songs for the festival competition!
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