@conference{
author = "Rašić, Miloš and Ranisavljević, Zdravko",
year = "2018",
abstract = "Kolo is a dance that sublimates the fundamental genre characteristics of kolo in three, the most prevalent dance genre in the former dance practice of Serbia. In current practice this dance involves mass performance and a keen awareness of the community about its national meaning. Kolo’s acquired national meaning is the result of the immense popularity the genre once enjoyed, especially among the Serbian population on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, but also of the theoretical interpretations of this phenomenon in Serbian science in the 20th and 21st centuries. The expansion of dances of the kolo in three genre is generally linked with the national connotation of the cultural space of Central Serbia, where the largest number of individual versions was registered in the 20th century. In the 21st century, when the politics of identity are gaining ground on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, kolo acquires a hybrid national meaning in Serbian daily political life. The performing of this dance by athletes, politicians and other public figures is directly linked with nationality, with the customary addition of the prefix Serbian (kolo). In practice, all the ethnic communities that live in Serbia perform kolo, either mixing with the Serbs or, frequently in their own ethnic environment. By nominating the kolo dance for UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2017, Serbia seeks to represent this dance as the dance of all Serbian citizens. In that regard, one dance, which is interpreted in science as an element that has acquired its meaning among the Serbs, becomes a symbol of Serbia. This paper interprets the phenomenon of constructing nationality through dance, taking into account different politics of knowledge, identity and representation, which have shaped the meaning of kolo in Serbia over time.",
publisher = "Szeged: International Councle for Traditional Music and Hungarian Association for Ethnochoreology, Szeged : International Councle for Traditional Music and Hungarian Association for Ethnochoreology",
journal = "30th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology in association with the Hungarian Association for Ethnochoreology, 29th july - 3rd August 2018, Szeged",
title = "Serbian Kolo and Politics",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15477"
}