Between East and West: Dragutin Gostuški’s musicological work

Abstract

Dragutin Gostuški (1923-1998), a composer and an art historian by vocation, as well as a musicologist and a music critic by ambition, is one of the most prominent personalities in the Serbian and Yugoslav music scene in the second half of the 20th century. His musicological work represents an abundant and intriguing field for research, given the fact that he left behind an extensive number of books, studies, scientific articles, and essays. The aim of this contribution is to examine the role Dragutin Gostuški had in Serbian musicology while taking into account the specifics of the Yugoslav and Serbian context after World War II, and during the second half of the 20th century.