‘Sevdalinka’, the traditional body of songs that poetically describe life and love in Bosnia, is shaken up in a new CD that mixes Bosnian singers with musicians of many different countries.

A Bosnian musician plays the saz, a traditional instrument, during a performance of the traditional love song Sevdalinka, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photo: Reuters Every Friday, folk ...

Sevdalinka is a form of traditional urban singing that is practised in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It originated as the result of a long process of acculturation that occurred when the traditional oral ...

Sevdalinka is a traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sevdalinka is an integral part of the Bosniak culture, but is also spread across the ex-Yugoslavia region, including ...

Officials in Bosnia-Herzegovina are campaigning to have sevdalinka, a traditional genre of folk music, added to UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage by the end of this year. Musicians and ...

Celebrated Sevdah musician Damir Imamovic talks about past and future of a Balkan musical genre that is in danger of disappearing. Damir Imamovic says sevdalinka is a musical genre that surpasses ...

The Bosnian musician combines Slavic sevdah, Sephardic Jewish and original songs to tell the story of two soldiers who fall in love during the first world war After an adolescence sheltering from the ...

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Every Friday, folk musician Enes Salman performs the Sevdalinka, an ancient form of love song from Bosnia and Herzegovina that this month was included in UNESCO's National ...

Bosnia's 'Balkan Blues' earns UNESCO recognition Sevdalinka, often referred to as the Balkan Blues, is a melancholic urban love song dating back to the 16th century. It is a mix of South Slavic oral ...