Reflections of All-Slavic Political Ideals in Narratives on Music: The Case of Yugoslav Music Journals in the Interwar Period

Abstract

The first music journals appeared among South Slavs in the Habsburg Monarchy, later Austria-Hungary, in the second half of the 19th century, at the time when the process of institutionalization of art music practices was in its initial phase. Apart from constituting pioneering attempts at music journalism among South Slavs from the so-called Mitteleuropa, the foundation of the journal Sveta Cecilija (St. Cecilia) in Zagreb in 1877 and the publication of Gudalo (The Bow) in Velika Kikinda in the following decade (1886-1887) demonstrated a growing interest of their intellectual elites in music as an aesthetic, social, and cultural phenomenon.