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]