Balkan Heritages
Title | Balkan Heritages PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Couroucli |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134800754 |
This volume deals with the relation between heritage, history and politics in the Balkans. Contributions examine diverse ways in which material and immaterial heritage has been articulated, negotiated and manipulated since the nineteenth century. The major question addressed here is how modern Balkan nations have voiced claims about their past by establishing ’proof’ of a long historical presence on their territories in order to legitimise national political narratives. Focusing on claims constructed in relation to tangible evidence of past presence, especially architecture and townscape, the contributors reveal the rich relations between material and immaterial conceptions of heritage. This comparative take on Balkan public uses of the past also reveals many common trends in social and political practices, ideas and fixations embedded in public and collective memories. Balkan Heritages revisits some general truths about the Balkans as a region and a category, in scholarship and in politics. Contributions to the volume adopt a transnational and trans-disciplinary perspective of Balkan identities and heritage(s), viewed here as symbolic resources deployed by diverse local actors with special emphasis on scholars and political leaders.
Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene
Title | Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene PDF eBook |
Author | Donna A. Buchanan |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 2007-10-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0810866773 |
Since the early twentieth century, 'balkanization' has signified the often militant fracturing of territories, states, or groups along ethnic, religious, and linguistic divides. Yet the remarkable similarities found among contemporary Balkan popular music reveal the region as the site of a thriving creative dialogue and interchange. The eclectic interweaving of stylistic features evidenced by Albanian commercial folk music, Anatolian pop, Bosnian sevdah-rock, Bulgarian pop-folk, Greek ethniki mousike, Romanian muzica orientala, Serbian turbo folk, and Turkish arabesk, to name a few, points to an emergent regional popular culture circuit extending from southeastern Europe through Greece and Turkey. While this circuit is predicated upon older cultural confluences from a shared Ottoman heritage, it also has taken shape in active counterpoint with a variety of regional political discourses. Containing eleven ethnographic case studies, Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse examines the interplay between the musicians and popular music styles of the Balkan states during the late 1990s. These case studies, each written by an established regional expert, encompass a geographical scope that includes Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Greece, Turkey, Serbia, and Montenegro. The book is accompanied by a VCD that contains a photo gallery, sound files, and music video excerpts.
Migrations in Balkan History
Title | Migrations in Balkan History PDF eBook |
Author | Ivan Ninić |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Balkan Peninsula |
ISBN |
The History of the Balkan Peninsula
Title | The History of the Balkan Peninsula PDF eBook |
Author | Ferdinand Schevill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 582 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Balkan Peninsula |
ISBN |
The Balkans in World History
Title | The Balkans in World History PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Baruch Wachtel |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2008-11-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199882738 |
In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of small and spiteful peoples, racked by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent conflict. The Balkans in World History re-defines this space in positive terms, taking as a starting point the cultural, historical, and social threads that allow us to see this region as a coherent if complex whole. Eminent historian Andrew Wachtel here depicts the Balkans as that borderland geographical space in which four of the world's greatest civilizations have overlapped in a sustained and meaningful way to produce a complex, dynamic, sometimes combustible, multi-layered local civilization. It is the space in which the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, of Byzantium, of Ottoman Turkey, and of Roman Catholic Europe met, clashed and sometimes combined. The history of the Balkans is thus a history of creative borrowing by local people of the various civilizations that have nominally conquered the region. Encompassing Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, and European Turkey, the Balkans have absorbed many voices and traditions, resulting in one of the most complex and interesting regions on earth.
The Balkans
Title | The Balkans PDF eBook |
Author | Nevill Forbes |
Publisher | Oxford, Clarendon P |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Balkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe
Title | Balkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Traian Stoianovich |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 2015-05-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 131747614X |
Encompassing the period from the Neolithic era to the troubled present, this book studies the peoples, societies and cultures of the area situated between the Adriatic Sea in the west and the Black Sea in the east, between the Alpine region and Danube basin in the north and the Aegean Sea in the south. This is not a conventional history of the Balkans. Drawing upon archaeology, anthropology, economics, psychology and linguistics as well as history, the author has attempted a "total history" that integrates as many as possible of the avenues and categories of the Balkan experience.