About the Journal
Journal Summary
Journal Muzikologija-Musicology (ISSN 1450-9814, eISSN 2406-0976) is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 2001 that promotes contemporary Serbian musicological and ethnomusicological research in international circles; at the same time, by including contributions of eminent foreign scholars, it has become an important and reliable source on contemporary musicological and ethnomusicological scientific tendencies and knowledge around the world. It is dedicated to music research as an aesthetical, cultural, historical and social phenomenon, with a primary focus on musicological and ethnomusicological research. The Journal also welcomes approaches from diverse scientific disciplines (history, history of art and literature, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, communicology, semiotics, music psychology etc.) as well as interdisciplinary projects.
Three sections make up the backbone of the magazine. The Main Theme contains original articles related to a specific musicological or ethnomusicological topic. The Varia section contains scientific studies from a wider circle of thematic areas relevant to the artistic, vernacular, and ecclesiastical music traditions. The third section – Scientific Reviews and Polemics – comprises reviews of various musicological and ethnomusicological publications and reports on scientific meetings.
Until 2011 the journal was published annually. Due to an increasing interest among local and international contributors, the Editorial Board decided to start publishing two issues per year (June and December), both in print and in open-access digital format.
The Journal is indexed in the Web of Science, SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, DOAJ, ProQuest, DoiSerbia, RILM, and in the List of Scientific Journals Categorization of the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia (M22).
Publisher: Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Address: Kneza Mihaila 36/IV, 11000 Beograd, Republika Srbija
Contact: [email protected]
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Current Issue
The Main Theme section is devoted to the implementation of aesthetic education for children and youth across different stages of socialist Yugoslavia’s sociopolitical and cultural development. The covered topics include the important role of mass songs from World War II and the early post-war years in shaping the musical experiences of elementary-school children in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as their relationship to the legacy of the national liberation struggle and the hierarchy of socialist values between 1945 and the late 1980s. The issue also contains papers on the transformative impact of the unique pedagogical principles developed by Bogdanka Boba Đurić, founder of the Folk Art Studio at the Pioneer’s House in Belgrade, on children’s understanding and acquisition of Yugoslav folk dances across different age groups and the intercultural exchanges between Pioneers from various Yugoslav schools and their peers around the world through the Children’s International Summer Village organization from the 1960s to the 1980s. Finally, separate contribution extensively discuss the intricacies and contradictions of the cultural and aesthetic education of college and university students between 1946 and 1953, as conceived by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and mass student organizations. The Varia section brings two articles on pedagogy (early childhood education in China and ethnomusicological studies in Ukraine), as well as one paper each on Greek women music historians and music in Serbian theater. The issue also includes reviews of five recent publications and one ethnomusicological conference.