My officer surprises me with roses – Macedonian Greek Collection

Wedding song in Macedonian Greek, Vallahades (Valaades, Valahades) variety

Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage (VLACH) ID-number: mace1251TRV0030a

Description:
Wedding song in septuple time (7/8) from Karakollar in the Çine/Aydın region of Turkey, belonging to the folklore of the Vallahades (Muslim Greeks) from West Macedonia. As the population exchange (better: the agreed mutual expulsion) between Greece and Turkey in the early 1920s was based on religion, the Greek speaking Muslim population was forced to emigrate. The Muslim Greeks had to leave their homeland in the Western Macedonian regions of Kozani/Kojani and Grevena/Grebene and settled in different regions of Turkey. Today their descendants only have a limited knowledge of Greek. Only a few people remember Greek songs from their homeland. This song represents a dialogue between a returning soldier, a young woman and the mother-in-law. The likely incomplete text and the change in the speaker's perspective make it difficult to understand the lyrics of the song. The parents of the singer came from the Tsourchli (Tsurhli, Çurhli) village in the Grevena (Grebene) region in West Macedonia (today Agios Georgios).

Cite as:
Ériti ʃymbéis mu mi róĭða mi trandáĭfila – My officer surprises me with roses; performer: Arife Kara, camera/ interview: Thede Kahl, Andreea Pascaru, transcription/ translation: Thede Kahl, Sotirios Rousiakis, editor: Antonio Fichera, retrieved from www.oeaw.ac.at/VLACH, ID-number: mace1251TRV0030a.

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