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THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

Nazmi Rrahmani, one of the first Kosovo Albanian writers to have his works published in isolated communist-era Albania, looks back on a career marked by struggles and strange surprises. “You on ...

Rinva Gjeka, an 18-year-old Albanian student, was captivated by the lively atmosphere of the waist drum and yangko dances ... had a similar experience with paper-cutting. During a workshop ...

Of particular note in this regard is the jhumur tradition. Jhumur is the folk dance of the Sadan ethnolinguistic group, who trace their origins to the Chotanagpur region. Today it occupies a central ...

Based on this meaning, when we practice the term Albanian historical songs, we mainly consider the texts of these creations. In lyric all those creations that convey or reflect the inner spiritual ...

A growing number of young people in Albania are fascinated by a centuries-old dance known as the k'cimi of Tropoja. What is this dance, which UNESCO has added to one of its lists of humanity's ...