The article addresses the visual and spatial aspects of musical performance not just as makers of the already structured discourses, but elements that have a strong formative role in constructing new conceptualizations of the very notion of musical performance. Staging, which was introduced as a part of the new socialist cultural politics, is investigated as a spatial process, by which the power relations are performed and new discourses of musicking are reproduced. The article focuses on the politics of spaces and the concepts of “public practice” as the features of shaping traditional music as specific cultural artifacts, “local tradition” or “historical past”.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32530477
This essay investigates the dynamics of “partnership” between the scholars and the social subjects involved in ethnomusicological research, with an aim of rethinking the scholar’s role in advocacy and social justice. It attempts to question the very notion of “applied work” and to explore its current concepts, values and possible futures. On the example of folklore performances during socialism, it focuses on the practices of social activism and the ways they can be interpreted from the view of actual concepts of ethnomusicology “in action”.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32528173
The monograph chapter analyses the history of The Folkore Festival in Beltinci from the period of socialism through Slovenian independence until today and reflects the ways in which the shifts in the national state borders have affected the politics of representation of musical practices. It particularly focuses on the socialist time and tries to deconstruct the dominant discourses on socialist folklore, which are interpreted from the “up-bottom” perspective – as institutionalized cultural practices. The article illuminates the voices of local community, their experiences and interpretations of musical activities in socialism.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32821037
The chapter explores the potential of music in the borderlands as potential places of tension but also of transgression, to construct and trace the rapidly changing topographies. It attempts to show how a specific border context influences the everyday music activities and shapes specific soundscapes. On the example of The Folklore Festival in Beltinci, it addresses the period after the Slovenian independence and traces the changes in representation of the local musical practices in a post-socialist and post-Yugoslav context.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33321773