The subject of this paper is the relation between the music festival as social event and circumstances in the context of the Yugoslav political regime. I tried to demonstrate strong relation of the music life and the ...

Šumadija is nowadays defined as a geographical area in central Serbia, between the rivers Sava and Danube in the north, Velika Morava in the cast, Zapadna Morava in the south, Kolubara in the west and the Kamenica - Čemernica ...

This chapter will explore the possibility of reviving the Serbian musical tradition in the city of Topola in Šumadija, Serbia’s central region. I will draw upon a singing workshop that I gave to, and that informed a field ...

In this paper two concepts of professionalization are observed within a unique cultural context: the annual concept of the cultural-artistic society (KUD) in a small town in central Serbia. It is about the conception 1) ...

Specific culture of the inhabitants of the Dinaric mountains region in the Western Balkans has already been observed primarily by ethnographers, antropogeographers and historians, and in recent times also by ethnomusicologists. ...

The available printed scores form Jovan Frajt's collection, as well as the preserved fragments of his catalogue, are analysed thoroghly. The results of the analysis are explained in depth using the published statistical ...

This paper discusses the circumstances under which the building and playing of the kaval became topical in Serbia (Belgrade) at the end of twentieth century: the work of the Byzantine choir “Saint John of Damascus” and ...

In this article we observe the history of the International Review of Composers in Belgrade, the most enduring annual festival of contemporary art music in Serbia, founded in 1992. We have borrowed the syntagm ‘postsocialist ...

This paper contains an overview of the research on traditional instrumental music in Serbia with a special focus on the latent ideas regarding typology. Namely, in comparison with traditional songs, instrumental music has ...