Includes bibliographical references and index.

Epos and the longuee durée. Subverted epic oral tradition in South Slavic written literatures / Bogdan Raki ; Why does epic survive? : a comparison of Balkan oral traditions / Margaret Beissinger ; Historiographic heterophony : song and the narration of the timeless present / Philip V. Bohlman -- Sounding the local. Songs with Lahutë and their music / Ardian Ahmedaja ; Contemporary forms of singing to the accompaniment of gusle in Serbia and Montenegro / Dimitrije O. Golemovi ; Professionals : Croatian gusle players at the turn of the millennium / Jaka Primorac and Joko Aleta -- The Balkan beat and Balkan borders. Remapping songs in the Balkans : bilingual Albanian singers of the Milman Parry collection / Nicola Scaldaferri ; Old men singing : heroic masculinity among the Serbs / Tomislav Longinovi ; Singing epic songs to bowed lute : views from Croatia / Svanibor Pettan ; Serbian turbo-epics : genres, intertextuality, and the play of ironies / Marko Ivkovi.