{"id":"IVANKOVIC2014-001","label":"Bilogora zujaljka","people_or_site":"Bilogora villages (Veliko Trojstvo, Velika Pisanica, Nova Rača, Grđevac)","country_current":"Croatia","historic_region":"Bilogora hills, Bjelovar-Bilogora County","macroregion":"Europe / Southeast Europe","local_name":"zujaljka","source_term":"zujaljka","source_language":"Croatian","object_description":"A narrow board of reddish wood with wavy edges, pierced at one end and tied to a long twine cord.","function_summary":"Whirled in the air as a folk sound instrument; one of the region's old 'air-sounding' instruments, played again on stage in LADO's 2014 Bilogora suite.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"ivankovic2014_bilogora_zujaljka","source_type":"secondary_literature","source_url":"https://www.lado.hr/site/assets/files/1748/web_lado-godisnjak_2014.pdf","page_or_plate":"LADO Godišnjak 2014 pp. 38-40 (zujaljka passage p. 40); LADO Strateški plan 2013-2015 p. 20; ZKUUBBŽ instrument gallery","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Bilogora representative point among Velika Pisanica, Nova Rača, Grđevac and Veliko Trojstvo, the villages whose recordings Ivanković names as his sources; no single village is given for the instrument.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Bilogora is the low wooded ridge between Moslavina and Podravina, old Military Frontier country where Kajkavian and Štokavian speech still ring side by side and villagers remember the St George's Day songs of the đurđari, the Midsummer rounds of the ladarice, and two once-magical dances, Gluvak and Kozatuš. Among the region's old instruments is the zujaljka, 'the buzzer', a wavy-edged wooden lath on a long cord, whirled to drone. Ivica Ivanković spent fifteen years recording Bilogora singers, and when he put their songs and dances on stage with the national folk ensemble LADO in 2014 the old instruments came too, the zujaljka among them.","pull_quote":"Tičeki, zujaljka (kakvu, primjerice, na sasvim drugom kraju svijeta poznaju i australski domoroci, Aboridžini!), zatim dvojnice i dude drevna su zrakozvučna glazbala stara vjerojatno koliko i ljudsko vjerovanje u moći nadnaravnih bića","pull_quote_translation":"Tičeki, the zujaljka (of a kind known even to the Australian natives, the Aborigines, at the other end of the world!), the double pipe and the bagpipe are ancient air-sounding instruments, probably as old as human belief in the powers of supernatural beings","pull_quote_cite":"Ivica Ivanković, LADO Godišnjak 2014, p. 40","term_gloss":"zujaljka: Croatian, 'the buzzer', from zujati, to buzz or hum.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Ivica Ivanković, 'Nova koreografija: Tajnovitom Bilogorom', LADO Godišnjak 2014, pp. 38-40","url":"https://www.lado.hr/site/assets/files/1748/web_lado-godisnjak_2014.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20241104102430/https://www.lado.hr/site/assets/files/1748/web_lado-godisnjak_2014.pdf"},{"citation":"Ansambl LADO, Strateški plan 2013-2015 (2012), p. 20","url":"https://www.lado.hr/site/assets/files/1046/lado-strateski-plan-2013-2015.pdf"},{"citation":"Vjekoslav Martinić and Romana Fezi Martinić, Tradicijska glazbala Bjelovarsko-bilogorske županije (ZKUUBBŽ)","url":"https://zkuubbz.hr/tradicijska-glazbala/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260520044246/https://zkuubbz.hr/tradicijska-glazbala/"}],"source_citations":"Ivica Ivanković, 'Nova koreografija: Tajnovitom Bilogorom', LADO Godišnjak 2014, pp. 38-40; Ansambl LADO, Strateški plan 2013-2015 (2012), p. 20; Vjekoslav Martinić and Romana Fezi Martinić, Tradicijska glazbala Bjelovarsko-bilogorske županije (ZKUUBBŽ)","source_display":"Ivica Ivanković, 'Nova koreografija: Tajnovitom Bilogorom', LADO Godišnjak 2014, pp. 38-40; Ansambl LADO, Strateški plan 2013-2015 (2012), p. 20; Vjekoslav Martinić and Romana Fezi Martinić, Tradicijska glazbala Bjelovarsko-bilogorske županije (ZKUUBBŽ)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A narrow board of reddish wood with wavy edges, pierced at one end and tied to a long twine cord.","function_display":"Whirled in the air as a folk sound instrument; one of the region's old 'air-sounding' instruments, played again on stage in LADO's 2014 Bilogora suite.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"bilogora villages","display_name":"Bilogora zujaljka","image":{"full":"assets/objects/IVANKOVIC2014-001_zkuubbz_zujaljka.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/IVANKOVIC2014-001_zkuubbz_zujaljka_thumb.jpg","alt":"A reddish wooden lath with wavy edges, a hole at one end, and a long loop of pale twine, on a black background.","credit":"Zajednica kulturno-umjetničkih udruga Bjelovarsko-bilogorske županije (ZKUUBBŽ), Tradicijska glazbala survey by Vjekoslav Martinić and Romana Fezi Martinić","source_page":"https://zkuubbz.hr/tradicijska-glazbala/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"A Bilogora zujaljka from the county's traditional-instrument survey: a wavy-edged wooden lath on its twine.","last_modified":"2026-11-12"},"slug":"ivankovic2014-001-bilogora-villages-veliko-trojstvo-velika-pisanica-nova-raca-gr-evac"}