Kaldrma

Kaldrma: Macedonian Chalgia Music (Keepers Of Tradition)

by Nenad Georgievski
December 18, 2004

Kaldrma is an older type of stone road that was built throughout the Balkans Peninsula during the Ottoman rule. It is now regarded as a kind of a monument or a leftover from the past, a type of road no longer built, yet still trodden upon. Symbolically it was taken as a metaphor for a type of music (chalgia) that is no longer performed (at least not in its original form), yet still popular and part of ...