The Poetics and Politics of the Mass Song in Nikola Hercigonja’s Discourse
Keywords:
Nikola Hercigonja, mass song, music folklore, musical realism, choral singing, musical institutionsAbstract
The article is dedicated to Nikola Hercigonja’s discourse on the Yugoslav mass song. It reconstructs his aesthetic principles: simplicity, collectivism, realism, and folklore as “living art.” At the same time, it explores the political frameworks in which this poetics took shape: from the wartime partisan experience to the postwar institutionalization, where tensions arose between mass participation and the professionalization of artistic practice.
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