Bosnia’s Musical Heritage: From the Austro-Hungarian Era to World War II
The international popularity of such performers as Mostar Sevdah Reunion has given Bosnian and Herzegovinian music a remarkable status among the audience of world music. The band has gained most of its popularity through records. But what do we know about those older recording stars of Bosnian music who were at the height of their careers before the Second World War?
At present, research on Bosnian and other Yugoslav discography is almost non-existent. Scholarly edited reissues of professionally audio-restored historical recordings have not been released, and if one tries to find biographies of such important musicians as Andolija, Sofka Nikolić or Bora Janjić in dictionaries of music, one will have little success - the entries do not exist. We can only hope that the situation will change in he future.
People tend to forget that Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph, which preserved sound in cylinder records, as early as in 1877, while Emil Berliner patented the disc-playing gramophone in 1887. The earliest demonstration of the talking machine in Bosnia took place in 1890: Mr Castle, an agent of the Edison Phonograph Company, exhibited Edison’s Phonograph in Sarajevo in July that year. After the first demonstration, various cylinder and disc machines were introduced as novelties by travelling central European and local entertainers in Bosnian towns.
At least four record companies made recordings in Bosnia before the First World War. The Gramophone Company of London had an extensive recording programme in most European countries. These activities are exceptionally well documented in the company’s surviving archives in Hayes, Middlesex. Newspaper advertisements show that the German International Talking Machine Co.m.b.H. (labels Odeon, Jumbo and Jumbola), Lyrophonwerke Adolf Lieban & Co. (label Lyrophon) and Record Werke Hermann Maassen (label Metafon) also released Bosnian records, but very few copies seem to have survived, and archival materials relating to these releases cannot be found.
The international popularity of such performers as Mostar Sevdah Reunion has given Bosnian and Herzegovinian music a remarkable status among the audience of world music. The band has gained most of its popularity through records. But what do we know about those older recording stars of Bosnian music who were at the height of their careers before the Second World War?
At present, research on Bosnian and other Yugoslav discography is almost non-existent. Scholarly edited reissues of professionally audio-restored historical recordings have not been released, and if one tries to find biographies of such important musicians as Andolija, Sofka Nikolić or Bora Janjić in dictionaries of music, one will have little success - the entries do not exist. We can only hope that the situation will change in he future.
People tend to forget that Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph, which preserved sound in cylinder records, as early as in 1877, while Emil Berliner patented the disc-playing gramophone in 1887. The earliest demonstration of the talking machine in Bosnia took place in 1890: Mr Castle, an agent of the Edison Phonograph Company, exhibited Edison’s Phonograph in Sarajevo in July that year. After the first demonstration, various cylinder and disc machines were introduced as novelties by travelling central European and local entertainers in Bosnian towns.
At least four record companies made recordings in Bosnia before the First World War. The Gramophone Company of London had an extensive recording programme in most European countries. These activities are exceptionally well documented in the company’s surviving archives in Hayes, Middlesex. Newspaper advertisements show that the German International Talking Machine Co.m.b.H. (labels Odeon, Jumbo and Jumbola), Lyrophonwerke Adolf Lieban & Co. (label Lyrophon) and Record Werke Hermann Maassen (label Metafon) also released Bosnian records, but very few copies seem to have survived, and archival materials relating to these releases cannot be found.
А ТЕК ОВАЈ ЧЛАНАК? ИЗВАНРЕДНО ШТИВО ЗА ОВАКВ ЕПОСЛЕПОДНЕВНЕ САТЕ У СУБОТУ КАКАВ ЈЕ ДАН ОВДЕ У СРБИЈИ. КО НАРАВНО ЗНА ЕНГЛЕСКИ САЗНАЋЕ ДА ЈЕ СОФКА НИКОЛИЋ И МИЈАТ МИЈАТОВИЋ СИНОНИМ ДОБРЕ ПЕСМЕ ОНДА ДАВНО И У БОСНИ И ХЕРВЕГОВИНИ КАО И У СРБИЈИ. АЛИ ДА БИСТЕ ТО СВЕ САЗНАЛИ МОРАТЕ ОТИЋИ НА САЈТ КОЈИ СЕ НАЛАЗИ
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