Tanasije Vućić (1888–1931) was a Serbian guslar who followed and entertained the Serbian and Montenegrin Army in the Balkan and First World wars.[1]

He is remembered as a popular, modern guslar[2] in the early part of the 20th century with Serbs everywhere including musicologists who came from far and wide to record his epic singing.[3] Most musicologists were acquainted either from what they read or from recording the diction of Tanasije Vućić, the guslar whom linguist Gerhard Gesemann (1888–1948)[4] bought from Montenegro to Prague.[5] Once there, Matija Murko invited Vućić to sing the poem Majka Jugovića for the Seminar for Slavic Philology in Prague. Later, Gesemann invited Vućić to Berlin – from Montenegro.[5]

Vućić was born in Petnjica in 1888. He came from the historical Serbian tribe and region of Drobnjak.[6]

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  1. ^ Žanić, Ivo (2007). Flag on the Mountain: A Political Anthropology of War in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1990–1995. ISBN 9780863568152.
  2. ^ "Glasnik". 1964.
  3. ^ "Journal of the International Folk Music Council". 1961.
  4. ^ "Зборник Матице српске за књижевност и језик". 2001.
  5. ^ a b Fischerová, Sylva. "The Role of Czechoslovakian Slavistics in the Forming of the Parry-Lord Oral-Formulaic Theory" (PDF). kb.upol.cz. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  6. ^ Ravbar, Miroslav (1958). "Pregled hrvatske: Srbske in makedonske književnosti".