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Leanne Wittlin
In the first hour of an Albanian wedding, most guests sit at their tables, engaging in small talk. A few dance around the wedding hall, but the mood is slow and formal. Soon, though, the small talk will be cut short and everyone will redirect their focus, get up from their seats, and tear up the dance floor. The rhythmic, reverberating sounds of live tallava music will fill the air.
Quoting ethnomusicologists Carol Silverman and Svanibor Pettan, Minga said the word tallava derives from Romani words tel o vas (under hand), referring to the Roma dance style cocek, in which women delicitaly move their hands.
The music style was first introduced by Ashkali and Roma people in the 1980s, probably in Kosovo or Macedonia. Since then it has been transformed, making its way to other parts of the Balkans. According to Kafu Kinolli, tallava has gone through multiple transitional periods.
Visar Munishi, who researches popular culture at the Department of Ethnomusicology in the Institute of Albanalogy in Prishtina, believes that the the music genre started in Macedonia and then came to Kosovo.