Research Catalog

Title

Wild songs, sweet songs : the Albanian epic in the collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord / edited by Nicola Scaldaferri ; with the collaboration of Victor A. Friedman, John Kolsti, and Zymer U. Neziri.

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University, 2021.
• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• Scaldaferri, Nicola, 1969-
• Friedman, Victor A.
• Kolsti, John
• Neziri, Zymer
• Parry, Milman
• Lord, Albert Bates

Description

xii, 419 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord collected singularly important examples of Albanian epic song while conducting fieldwork in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and northern Albania. A complete catalogue of their collected materials, Wild Songs, Sweet Songs is an authoritative guide to one of the most significant collections of Balkan folk epic in existence.

Series Statement

Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature ; no. 5

Uniform Title

Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature ; no. 5.

Subject

• Songs, Albanian > Texts
• Songs, Albanian > Translations into English
• Songs, Albanian > History and criticism
• Songs, Albanian
• Songs, Albanian > Texts
• Songs, Albanian > Translations into English
• Songs, Albanian > History and criticism
• Folk literature, Albanian

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Texts
• Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-401) and indexes.

Language (note)

• In English; song texts in Albanian and English translation.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 ESSAYS -- Milman Parry, Albert Lord, and the Albanian Epics / John Kolsti -- The Albanian Collection of Albert B. Lord in Northern Albania: Context, Contents, and Singers / Zymer U. Neziri -- Text, Music, Performance / Nicola Scaldaferri -- The Epic Admirative in Albanian / Victor A. Friedman -- pt. 2 CATALOGUES -- Albanian Recordings in the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature -- Albert B. Lord Collection of Epics from Northern Albania, 1937 -- pt. 3 ANTHOLOGY -- Section 1 From the Recordings of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, 1934 -- 1935 -- Salih Ugljanin, Marko and Musa, PN 659 -- Salih Ugljanin, Muji and Gavran Kapetan, PN 672 -- Fatima Biberovic, The Song of the Turkish Cakes, PN 6467 -- Fatima Biberovid, Two Pears with One Pear, PN 6503 -- Fatima Biberovic, Mourning Song, PN 6523a -- Section 2 From the Transcriptions of the Albert B. Lord Collection, 1937 -- Gjergj Pllumbi, Musa Qeshexhi and His Brother Bergjanine Cjemi, LAN 28 -- Marash Nika, The Song of Ali Pasha of Cusinje, LAN 34 -- Sokol Martini, The Song of the Wedding of Haiti, LAN 39 -- Ali Meta, The Song of Sultan Murad [The Battle of Kosovo], LAN 53 -- Ali Meta, The Song of Ali Bajraktari and the Queen of England, LAN 57 -- Adem Brahimi, The Song of Sirotin Ali, LAN 60 -- Rexhep Zeneli, The Song of Haiti Who Seized Jovan Kapidani, LAN 79 -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 Photos -- Appendix 2 Letters by Albert B. Lord, from Northern Albania -- Appendix 3 Manuscript Reproductions -- Appendix 4 Maps.

ISBN

• 9780674271333
• 0674271335

OCLC

• on1285687386
• 1285687386
• SCSB-14104466

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library