Song Remains the Same

Hamdija Šahinpašić 19142003 was one of those rare individuals able to memorize songs in their authentic traditional form Šahinpašić belonged to a family known for its songs In the early 1950s Miodrag A Vasiljević recorded Šahinpašić singing dozen of songs at the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Belgrade A 1967 publication finally included 300 of his songs published bilingually in Bosnian and Russian Šahinpašić himself become the focus of attention of numerous ethnomusicologists and folklorists and his repertoire was preserved on recording of good quality