Zanin Berbic, 28, an ethno-musicologist who plays saz, a long-necked lute used in Ottoman classical music, says that ...

UNESCO added sevdalinka, or sevdah, to its list of intangible world cultural heritage. It's a genre of traditional folk music which dates back to the 16th-century Ottoman Empire. For the musicians who ...

Enes Salaman, a folk musician from Bosnia and Herzegovina, performs Sevdalinka every Friday. This ancient love song, which originated in Bosnia and ...