Bećarac singing and playing from Eastern Croatia

Overview

Bećarac is a popular genre of music in eastern Croatia deeply rooted in the cultures of Slavonia, Baranja and Srijem. Communication among its performers is essential: lead singers interchange vocal lines, striving to out-sing one another while creating, emulating and combining decasyllabic verses and shaping the melody – all the while accompanied by a group of singers and tambura bands. The music conveys community values, but also enables singers to express thoughts and feelings that might be inappropriate if uttered directly or in other contexts. Each lead singer shapes his or her performance according to the context, with the performance lasting as long as the creativity and energy of the singers permit. Lead singers must possess both a powerful voice and a wide repertoire of old and new couplets, and be apt, quick and clever in choosing and combining them. Nowadays, men and women...

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Community and Authority

Communities: Croatia
Languages: Not specified in UNESCO dataset
Cultural territories: Croatia
Countries: Croatia

How the System Works

Music, Performance and Oral Literature Material Culture, Design and Technology Ways of Knowing and Knowledge Transmission

Sources and Evidence

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Field-Level Provenance

title: UNESCO DataHub field title_en
preferredTitle: UNESCO DataHub field title_fr
summary: UNESCO DataHub field description_en
type: UNESCO DataHub fields type_of_element_en and type_acronym
countries: UNESCO DataHub field countries, ISO codes resolved with ISO-3166 regional metadata
categories: ARED category inference from UNESCO concepts_primary_names, concepts_secondary_names and title
relationships: UNESCO concepts_primary_names, concepts_secondary_names, type fields and World Heritage links
sourceUrl: UNESCO DataHub field http_url_en
rights: UNESCO DataHub dataset metadata license and license_url

Original Source Metadata

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ich_public_ref358

inscription_year2011

title_enBećarac singing and playing from Eastern Croatia

title_frLa pratique du chant et de la musique bećarac de Croatie orientale

type_of_element_enRepresentative List

type_acronymRL

countriesHR

http_url_enhttps://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/00358

concepts_primary_namesImprovisation, Instrumental music, Vocal music

concepts_secondary_namesChoir singing, Costumes, Emotions, Humour (literary), Mass culture, Satire, Social values, String instruments, Wedding, Wind instruments

main_image_urlhttps://ich.unesco.org/img/photo/thumb/03316-LRG.jpg

main_image_caption_enNot supplied

main_image_copyright2008 by Ministry of Culture

main_image_authorCultural Society Sokadija

videoshttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/6_Kw18DWHP4

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Improvisation Instrumental music Vocal music Choir singing Costumes Emotions Humour (literary)Mass culture Satire Social values String instruments UNESCO representative list

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