The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs," was formed
on October 3, 1929. It included the regions of Serbia,
Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and
Macedonia. Croatia, Slovenia, and Macedonia declared their
independence from Yugoslavia in 1991; Bosnia and Herzegovina did
so the following year. The republics of Serbia and Montenegro
declared a new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in April 1992;
Montenegro and Serbia became separate independent nations in
June and October 2006, respectively. In 1938 and 1939,
folklorist Sidney Robertson Cowell made several sound recordings
and photographs of Croatian-American singers and performers in
Woodside, San Mateo, and Mountain View, California. The sound
recordings include Dalmatian dance music, Serb-Croatian oral
epic songs, and instrumental selections on the gusle, the
misnice, the svirala, the lirica, and the dvorgrle.