Genre and Thematic Features of Premodern Drinking Songs from Perast

Abstract

The present article provides an overview of drinking songs from Perast as a special form of traditional lyrical creation and a dominant oral literary genre of the Bay of Kotor region's premodern oral poetry. The article describes the corpus of Perast’s collections created between the end of the 17th century and the 1830s in which drinking songs are included, providing an overview of previous research and analysis of genre and thematic characteristics of drinking songs from Perast.

Keywords

• Perast
• Montenegrin oral poetry
• drinking songs
• Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
• Nikola Burović