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Dušan M. Popović
Primary School “Dr Ibrahim Bakic”, Tutin
and Technical High School –Tutin

A REEL, BAGPIPES, RICE SUPELKA AND KAVAL AS A PART
OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSICAL TRADITION OF THE SERBIAN
POPULATION OF THE UPPER PESTER VALLEY

Abstract: Musical instrumental heritage of the Upper Pester Valley
represents a part of the rich treasure of the cultural heritage of the southern-west
part of the Republic of Serbia. For its remoteness and distance from the leading
city centers, this area also called the “Serbian Siberia”, it had the conditions to
keep in itself numerous domestic cultural elements that survived until the present
day. Few numbers of researches dealt with the instrumental musical tradition of
the Upper Pester Valley and we shall mention just the most prominent one, Petar
Vukosavljevic. In this paper, being a result of the field researches starting from 2007,
the musical instruments of a reel, bagpipes, supelka and kaval shall be discussed,
as a part of the instrumental tradition of the Serbian Orthodox population of the
Upper Pester Valley, where they all had a constant continuity, except for the reel,
until the present day. The reason for studying exactly these instruments within the
instrumental tradition of the Serbian population is for the presence of the certain
ones was recorded only in this community, and most of them gradually disappear,
since there is an expressive tendency of the Serbian population to leave from the
Pester areas, and it draws with itself a gradual dying out of the cultural elements,
being recognizable in the entire cultural heritage of the population of this Valley.
The paper was written primarily based on the field researches conducted in the
period from 2007 until 2021, relevant scientific literature, and then, several decades
of musical and making authors’ experiences.
Key words: reel, bagpipes, rice supelka, kaval, Suvi Do, Boljare, Bioc,
Budjevo, Upper Pester Valley.