This paper aims to illuminate on how the institution of the folk orchestra in Serbia was established using archive material. The folk orchestra, as a specific instrumental formation for accompaniment of popular folk songs ...

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 ...

Speaking from an ethnomusicological standpoint, this paper elaborates on the use of recorded sound and audio-visual material for the purpose of documenting particular musical elements in Serbia, according to the concept ...

Поред основних структуралних карактеристика жанра, у овом раду биће концизно представљени резултати првог опсежног етномузиколошког истраживања архивских, теренских и медијских извора о староградској музици у Србији (нарочито ...

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) ...

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 ...

Растућа популарност кавала у савременим условима у Србији иницирала је потребу за синтетичким радом у којем би, паралелним сагледавањем разнородних података о овом инструменту са простора Србије и Македоније, била омогућена ...

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. ...

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 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 ...