Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey Into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music Penguin Ananda to a pair of divers

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Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey Into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music Penguin Ananda to a pair of diversIn a gramophone shop in Istanbul, renowned record collector Christopher C. King uncovered some of the strangestand most hypnoticsounds he had ever heard. The 78s were immensely moving, seeming to tap into a primal well of emotion inaccessible through contemporary music. The songs, King learned, were from Epirus, an area straddling southern Albania and northwestern Greece and boasting a folk tradition extending back to the pre Homeric era. To hear this