Klapa Singing Ivana,
The information came from Wikipedia and was found in several spots on the English pages. Upon deeper research, I find the you are correct and Klapa is at lest 150 years old (and its roots much older.) I will correct the pages. Thanks for pointing this out.
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Take care if you rent a boat We have spent some days in the Island and it is very beautiful but please take care with renting a privat boat. It sounds obvious but there some places where you can rent a boat with a three minut course. They told you it is very easy, you do not need any license. However if it is very windy it can become dangerous. We rented a boat and had an accident because a lack of experience. They told us it was our fault and we had to pay a huge amount of money and had a bad experience. We were foreigners and we did not take care but the company which rent the care did not help us any more. For that reason we recommend everybody with no experience do not rent a boat thinking you can manage. It is dangerous!!!
Great work of putting up everything. Excellent pics and even more wonderful commentary. Bravo. It was like I was physically in Zagreb. have you done similar efforts elsewhere?
Great work of putting up everything. Excellent pics and even more wonderful commentary. Bravo. It was like I was physically in Zagreb. have you done similar efforts elsewhere?
Klapa singing Dear friend,
I'm not shore where did you get this information about klapa singing that it started in that form in Dalmatia in 1960s? I have a filing that you have misunderstood something. That is totally wrong data. This kind of singing it is traditional and it dates since glagolitic time (Bizant). First it was a sacral form of singing but in 15 century it started to get more folk form with more folk themes.
The song that you have linked is funeral song. Here is a link to a youtube video of song "Dalmatino poviću pritrujena"- trans. "Dalmatia, by history over vained". This song is new dated, but it is inspired by that old sacral way of singing, just to get an impression of what was it really like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyPbOp7O6Mg&feature=related
Please, correct this information and explore it a bit more, because this subject really has something to offer by it's richness.
Best regards
Ivana, Split, Croatia
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Photo Permission I am preparing an academic paper for a new e-pub, PAST, published by the Pioneer America Society, on the transmission of the baroque parapet from Spain, thru Mexico, to our Southwest, where the baroque parapet has been vernacularized in American secular architecture. As an illustration of Churrigueresque in Mexico I would like your permission to use a photo of yours that focuses on the upper facade of a church designed by the architect Tresguerras in San Miguel de Allende; www.fmschmitt.com/travels/mexico/San%20Miguel%20de%20Allende/large%20images/2007_12_05_Mexico_San_Miguel_de_Allende-52_san_francisco%2012-5-2007%207-22-25%20PM.JPG. If given your permission, I will, of course, identify you as the photograper. Marshall McLennan, professor of geography, Eastern Michigan University.
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Klapa Singing
Ivana, The information came from Wikipedia and was found in several spots on the English pages. Upon deeper research, I find the you are correct and Klapa is at lest 150 years old (and its roots much older.) I will correct the pages. Thanks for pointing this out.