Southeastern European (Balkan) Music

Croats and Serbs arrived in North America in large numbers during the period 1890–1924. These were primarily peasants and unskilled workers, many of whom settled in the industrial centers and mining towns of western Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes region. The vast majority were men, whose primary social institutions were saloons and boardinghouses; these establishments became important contexts for tamburitza music, which is discussed elsewhere in this article. From the late nineteenth century,...