Post-Yugoslav Musical Landscapes: Restarting Musical Communications after the Wars
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article explores the processes and strategies used to re-establish broken links in the field of art music performance activities and scholarship after the end of the wars fought on the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the 1990s. The independent states that emerged during that decade and the next had mutual relationships marked by various degrees of antagonism or rancor but also friendliness, occasionally. Two of those new states, Slovenia and Croatia, have joined the EU, whilst the others are still either candidates (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia) or potential ones (Kosovo). In the first decade following 2000, building new relationships between Yugoslavia's successor states was not easy or continuous. Although low budgets and political tensions between some of the states slowed down the realization of the goals of full normalization of mutual intercultural communication, since 2010, the situation has improved generally, supported by foreign funding. In this article, processes of rapprochement have been observed: exchanges of musicians and other artists (larger performing bodies like orchestras and opera and ballet ensembles, as well as individuals), initiatives of goodwill (demonstrations of good collegial relations between composers from the area multinational orchestras of young people touring in the region, and dance projects with the same agenda), and cooperation between music scholars from all the new states (participation in conferences, contributions to various editorial projects, such as books and journals, and joined research projects). The situation in the post-Yugoslav musical landscapes has not been normalized yet, but the first quarter of the century has seen a lot of positive initiatives and results.
Author: Milin, Melita
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6946216001
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