Music and Musical Life on Dalmatian Islands: Processions, Carnivals, Haka-musaka, Viroza party... Musical Traditions of Bol, the Island of Brac

• Autores: Josko Caletta
• Localización: Trans : Transcultural Music Review = Revista Transcultural de Música, ISSN-e 1697-0101, Nº. 14, 2010, 1 págs.
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The author is following and observing the (musical) life in the small picturesque town of Bol on the Dalmatian island of BracË?. The (traditional) musical life in the small urban and rural communities on the Dalmatian islands is still significantly present through a variety of traditional customs, both secular and sacral, and various vocal, instrumental and dance forms. Besides older layers of musical tradition, abandoning the old and creating, constructing and accepting the new musical idioms is the principal characteristic of their music making. The text examines the small community �double� life. During the summer there is a global life when the place becomes a typical Mediterranean tourist destination. The rest of the year local islanders keep their musical life, with local customs still alive. The author depicts those musical lives through ethnographic descriptions of the main local annual events.