Epic Folk Songs from Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Collection of Matija Murko (1912, 1913)

This edition — comprising the collections of Matija Murko, made in 1912 and 1913 — releases all his recordings preserved in the Phonogrammarchiv; it also aims to shed light on Murko's research and phonographic fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he carried out just before the outbreak of World War I. Murko was convinced that his research into epic singing could be improved considerably by using a recording device. Although Murko's activities are quite well known, e.g. from his public...