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Editorial
Full text linkWe are delighted to present a special issue of the Conservatorium focusing on “Balkan Music and Dance”. This
issue is dedicated to our dear and respected colleague, Prof. Dr. Selena Rakočević (1971–2022). It encompasses 12
valuable contributions from the fields of ethnochoreology, ethnomusicology, and musicology, all of which delve into
themes significant to the music and dance of Southeast Europe. As many as 8 of the 12 contributions relate to a
bilateral scientific cooperation project with which Selena Rakočević was also associated: Exploring the Tracks of
Balkan Culture: Serbian–Turkish Connections in Music and Dance from Ottoman Period until Today (TRackeRS). In
editing this special issue of the journal, project leaders have attempted to highlight the connections and adaptations
of music and dance forms originating from these two present-day countries as well as the legacies received by ethnic
communities from related former countries such as the Ottoman Empire and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Relation of Music Archiving and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Serbia
Full text linkSpeaking from an ethnomusicological standpoint, this paper elaborates on the use of recorded sound and audio-visual material for the purpose of documenting particular musical elements in Serbia, according to the concept of UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. There is a difference
between contemporary field recordings for archival purposes, according to the ICH concept, and the employment of already recorded historical legacy. Through the example of music elements from Serbian national register of ICH, this paper will raise the questions of ethnomusicological politics of field recording and digitization of archived historical recordings, as well as analyze the politics of heritage management. Based on ethnomusicological and archival experience, the aim of this paper is to offer a model of application of sound archive for the future, which can effectively contribute to the concept of intangible cultural heritage in Serbia
Serbian Newly-Composed Folk Music of the 1960s-1980s in Post-Yugoslav Diaspora as a Dissonant Heritage
No full textNewly composed folk music (NCFM, Serbian: novokomponovana narodna muzika), as a genre of popular folk music in Serbia and Yugoslavia since its beginnings in the late 1960s, is distinguished by its contrast with rural traditional folk music. Although it was regarded by the cultural elite as “corrupted” folk music and, in some cases, as kitsch, it was unequivocally accepted as a more progressive form of folk music among its target group - newly arrived migrants from the countryside who, during that period, moved to larger cities as well as abroad. Emigration continued in the 1990s, when emigrant population left the disintegrating Yugoslavia, but the NCFM continued to exist among the emigrants, including those of non-Serbian origin. To this day, it has survived in various post-Yugoslav emigrant communities, parallel to choreographed folklore (i.e. arrangements of traditional folk music for dance accompaniment) and contemporary forms of popular folk music (such as popfolk and trepfolk).
In this article, two levels of the nostalgic existence of the NCFM are examined - associations with the homeland and with the past. In particular, the article examines whether the NCFM has become a cultural heritage of the diaspora, and whether the popular music (unintentionally?) become a Serbian/Yugoslav cross-border “soft power”? On the cases from field researches conducted in Türkiye and Hungary, we will approach the NCFM by applying the concept of dissonant heritage, questioning the apostasy of this popular genre from official cultural identity politics and considering it as a living practice that serves as an identification tool in dynamic diaspora communities.Theme: Music and Dance in the Balkans: Intersections of Tradition, Identity, and Innovatio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Urban Folk Music Legacy from Former Yugoslavia in Contemporary Istanbul
Full text linkThis article presents initial observations from the fieldwork in Istanbul in 2022,
where short-term research of immigrant communities from former Yugoslavia
was conducted within the project of bilateral cooperation, Exploring the Tracks
of Balkan Culture: Serbian–Turkish Connections in Music and Dance from
Ottoman Period until Today (TRackeRS). Nowadays, these communities are
specific because of their atypical migration direction, from Serbia and former
Yugoslavia – toward the East. They cherish their traditions through choirs, and
nostalgically remember their homeland through two types of urban folk music
related to Serbia (and former Yugoslavia) – sevdalinka (which evokes their
Ottoman ancestry) and novokomponovana narodna muzika (‘newly-composed
folk music’, which evokes their Yugoslav reality from the time of their youth).
The article examines the role of these popular folk music practices, their
potential in safeguarding the culture of origin (especially because of the
threatening oblivion of the language), as well as the potential for social
cohesion in choral singing.In honor of dear Prof. Dr. Selena Rakočević (1971–2022). Memory eternal!
I am thankful to Dr. Ivana Medić for her constructive reading of this text
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
The Cicvarićs as Pioneers of Cultural Entrepreneurship in Serbia
Full text linkIn this article, I focus on the activities of the Cicvarićs, a notable Roma
music family from the western Serbian town of Šabac. I begin by overviewing
cultural entrepreneurship and its characteristics and then provide the context
for a discussion of the Cicvarićs’ activities as regards the traditional role of
Roma musicians in Serbia and the musical life of Šabac at the time. Following
a discussion of their repertoire and the innovative business practices that they
introduced, I conclude by highlighting the aspects of their work that can be
assessed today as examples of cultural entrepreneurship. I conceptualize the
Cicvarićs as pioneers of cultural entrepreneurship in Serbia, paying attention
to the notions of supply and demand, economic development, and historical
processes of producing, distributing, and consuming urban folk music in
Serbia.The initial version of this article was first
presented as a conference paper at the 46th ICTMWorld Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, and supported by the project
Applied Musicology and Ethnomusicology in Serbia: Making a Difference in Contemporary Society (APPMES), No.
7750287, financed by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (2022–2024)
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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