Definitions
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- noun A traditional genre of folk music from
Bosnia and Herzegovina , also popular in ex-Yugoslavia region.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Pronek's sadness -- embodied in sevdalinka, the Bosnian blues -- makes novels of immigrant assimilation and adaptability utterly superficial by comparison.
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The ability to find beauty in the world as it is — laden with sorrow and evil — is, for a lot of Bosnians, related to the feeling of sevdah and expressed in the type of song called sevdalinka.
Living With Music: Aleksandar Hemon - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The ability to find beauty in the world as it is — laden with sorrow and evil — is, for a lot of Bosnians, related to the feeling of sevdah and expressed in the type of song called sevdalinka.
Living With Music: Aleksandar Hemon - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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My favorite sevdalinka is “Ima L’ Jada K’o Kad Aksam Pada” (“Is There Sorrow as When Night Is Falling”), in which the beauty that is to be swallowed by the oncoming night is present in the mute nightingales, the sound of saz (a single-string instrument) accompanying late prayers and the shuddering of courtyard fountains.
Living With Music: Aleksandar Hemon - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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My favorite sevdalinka is “Ima L’ Jada K’o Kad Aksam Pada” (“Is There Sorrow as When Night Is Falling”), in which the beauty that is to be swallowed by the oncoming night is present in the mute nightingales, the sound of saz (a single-string instrument) accompanying late prayers and the shuddering of courtyard fountains.
Living With Music: Aleksandar Hemon - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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