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  • The Future of Music History
    No. 27 (2019)

    The theme of the issue No 27 The Future of Music History was inspired by the eponymous seminar organised as part of a conference held at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in September 2017. The seminar was prepared by Jim Samson, one of the most outstanding musicologists of our time, Emeritus Professor of Music, Royal Holloway (University of London), member of the British Academy and author of more than 100 publications, including the first comprehensive history of music in the Balkans in English (Leiden: Brill, 2013). Professor Samson kindly accepted our invitation to be the guest editor of this issue, in which we publish articles by four of five panelists (Reinhard Strohm, Martin Loeser, Katherine Ellis and Marina Frolova-Walker). We are deeply grateful to these pre-eminent musicologists for their thorough reflection on the future of our discipline and the continuous efforts to make the subject of study the geographical regions, social strata and listening practices that have hitherto been neglected in musicological considerations.

  • Cover image of the 26th issue of the journal Musicology

    Music History Today
    No. 26 (2019)

    The main theme of No 26, Music History Today, was inspired by the international conference The Future of Music History organised by the Institute of Musicology SASA. The conference took place at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in September 2017. Although only a few articles in this issue originated from papers presented at the conference (which have been significantly expanded and peer-reviewed) – while the remaining articles were written independently – all authors gathered here share a consideration of the current position of historical musicology as a scientific discipline in the first decades of the 21st century.

  • Cover image of the issue no 25 of the journal Musicology

    Music and Historiography
    No. 25 (2018)

    The mini-jubilee of the journal Musicology – publication of the 25th issue – coincides with the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Institute of Musicology SASA, as well as the celebration of the 90th birthday of Dr Nadežda Mosusova, a retired principal research fellow, who spent her entire career at the Institute of Musicology SASA. At the turn of the tenth decade of her life, Dr. Mosusova is still very active; it is with great pleasure that we dedicate the 25th issue of the journal to her. In the year of the anniversary, we decided that the main topic of the issue should be Music and Historiography. Although over the past several decades musicology has significantly expanded, overcoming its former borders and achieving numerous interdisciplinary interweavings, historiographic considerations remain the core of this discipline. The study of primary sources, the reconstruction of the past supported by convincing evidence, the review of earlier interpretations of the already processed material, and the discovery of unknown details from the lives of the famous protagonists of the musical past, constitute the backbone of the methodology applied in the articles unified in the main theme of this issue.

  • Cover image of the issue no 24 of the journal Musicology

    Quantum Music
    No. 24 (2018)

    The main theme of No 24 Quantum Music was inspired by the eponymous international project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union (559695-CREA-1-2015-1-RS-CULT-COOP1, 2015-2018). For the first time, an institution from Serbia – the Institute of Musicology SASA – was the project leader within the Creative Europe programme, and the consortium of partners and associate partners comprised cultural, higher education and research institutions from Serbia, Slovenia, Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. This issue contains articles written by the authors who directly participated in this project, but also the scientists who joined the project during its realisation, as well as articles by authors who are not in any way related to his project – however, they are involved in a similar or related research within their own institutions. Nine texts whitten by physicists, mathematicians, engineers, composers, musicologists and pianists, illuminate various aspects of the permeation of quantum physics and music.

  • Cover image of the issue no 23 of the journal Musicology

    Reflections of Socialism
    No. 23 (2017)

    The main theme of this issue, Reflections on Socialism, is inspired by the International Conference "Musical Legacies of State Socialism – Revisiting the Narratives About Post-World War II Europe" that took place at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade in September 2015. Articles selected for this issue bring a cross section of topics and problem areas initiated by this conference; studies of Serbian music after World War II and music in other socialist countries alternate in order to allow readers to compare different contexts, whose specificities were predominantly determined by the strictness of the application of the socialist realist canon The theme Reflections of Socialism creates a colourful panorama of musical life in the period of state socialism, but also points to today's repercussions of certain systemic and ideological settings of that time.

  • Cover image of the issue no 22 of the journal Musicology

    Urban Sonic Ecology
    No. 22 (2017)

    The main theme of the volume No. 22, Urban Sonic Ecology, is inspired by the international project City Sonic Ecology – Urban Soundscapes of Bern, Ljubljana and Belgrade, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) within their SCOPES program. The Institute of Musicology SASA is one of the participants in this project, together with the Institute of Musicology, University of Bern, Switzerland, and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Centre for Scientific Research of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia. This highly innovative three-year project, during which the soundscapes of three European capital cities (Bern, Ljubljana and Belgrade) were recorded and analyzed comparatively for the first time, demonstrated how soundscapes and ambiances were transformed under the influence of transitional and other social and cultural changes.

  • Cover image for the Musicology journal no. 21

    Music and Crisis
    No. 21 (2016)

    The year 2016 was globally perceived as the year marked by numerous crises — political, military, refugee, financial... Inspired by this, we decided to dedicate our Vol. 21 to the relationship between music and crisis, understood in the broadest sense. The authors who have responded to our call for papers discuss music and crisis in different ways and in various social and cultural contexts. 

  • Cover image of the issue no 20 of the journal Musicology.

    Music and Empire
    No. 20 (2016)

    This jubilee issue features the topic Music and Empire, edited by Dr Ivana Medić. This theme was inspired by the centennary of World War I and prepared in collaboration with the BASEES Study Group for Russian and East European Music (REEM). The outbreak of World War I catalysed the disintegration of European empires and the subsequent establishment of national states. The articles gathered in this rubric discuss the important issues such as the role of music in the formation of small state nationalism in the age of Empire; the disciplines of folklore and ethnography and their role in the creation of imperial ideologies; the musical representation and construction of national and imperial identities and manifestations of orientalising or exoticising tendencies; musical consequences of the continuation of empires and ‘empires’ in the twentieth century; the musical historiography of the empire and its role in establishing and maintaining national and imperial identities; and the effects of the decline and dissolution of empires and ‘empires’ on constructed musical identities, ideologies and official cultural policies in regard of music. The rubric Varia contains three articles that offer new insights into some of the most pressing issues of the Serbian church, art and folk music, and the last two papers are interdisciplinary. 

  • Cover for journal Musicology no. 19

    (Ethno)Musicology at the Turn of Millennium (II)
    No. 19 (2015)

    In this current time of transition from one millennium to another, humanistic disciplines are still being developed, simultaneously with a turnaround regarding thematic directions and study methods. Conceived trends in thinking and research are being reshaped and receive new guidelines, in parallel with contemporary ideas and significant, sometimes radical, changes in society and culture, with new forms of communication, using different media. Besides this, ideological starting points are also continually being reshaped. At the same time, there are new experiences and achievements in the humanities, and the discourse methods encompassed are increasingly based on experiences of the most varying theoretical approaches. The new fields in which processes are unfolding in the domain of social and cultural trends, as well as their general reception and perception, also condition changes in perspective in the observation of certain processes in musical culture, the context of musical performance, and even the structures of actual musical texts. The lively interest in these phenomena has determined the main theme for works in this and the next edition of Musicology: (Ethno)Musicology at the Turn of the Millennium. This edition encompasses a wide spectrum of current questions in the fields of musical, religious, traditional, and popular music, as well as in the area of multimedia art expression. 

  • Cover pages of the 18th issue of the journal Musicology.

    (Ethno)Мusicology at the Turn of the Millennium (I)
    No. 18 (2015)

    In this current time of transition from one millennium to another, humanistic disciplines are still being developed, simultaneously with a turnaround regarding thematic directions and study methods. Conceived trends in thinking and research are being reshaped and receive new guidelines, in parallel with contemporary ideas and significant, sometimes radical, changes in society and culture, with new forms of communication, using different media. Besides this, ideological starting points are also continually being reshaped. At the same time, there are new experiences and achievements in the humanities, and the discourse methods encompassed are increasingly based on experiences of the most varying theoretical approaches. The new fields in which processes are unfolding in the domain of social and cultural trends, as well as their general reception and perception, also condition changes in perspective in the observation of certain processes in musical culture, the context of musical performance, and even the structures of actual musical texts. The lively interest in these phenomena has determined the main theme for works in this and the next edition of Musicology: (Ethno)Musicology at the Turn of the Millennium. This edition encompasses a wide spectrum of current questions in the fields of musical, religious, traditional, and popular music, as well as in the area of multimedia art expression. 

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