The issue 40 of Muzikologija – Musicology is published

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.

Editors of Main Theme: Dr. Ivana Vesić and Dr. Miloš Marinković

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Marija Dumnić Vilotijević