Folk Music of Eastern Yugoslavia: A Process of Acculturation

From source to commodity: newly-composed folk music of Yugoslavia

“…Indeed, many musicologists have seen the introduction of names of songwriters as an important determining factor which distinguished NCFM from narodna music (Petrovic 1974;Kos 1972;Doliner 1978;Povrzanovic 1982). Indeed, many musicologists have seen the introduction of names of songwriters as an important determining factor which distinguished NCFM from narodna music (Petrovic 1974;Kos 1972;Doliner 1978;Povrzanovic 1982).…”

“…Typical of the music scholarship and perception of that time, the conflict was a conceptual one, defining music as being either 'created' (invoking the spontaneity of communal music making and anonymity), or 'composed' (suggesting a technique, authorship and economic motive). Indeed, many musicologists have seen the introduction of names of songwriters as an important determining factor which distinguished NCFM from narodna music (Petrovic 1974;Kos 1972;Doliner 1978;Povrzanovic 1982). Ines Prica comments: 'Mass-media became a catalyst for our mythical perception of narod; the "people" is now made by the media into the audience', and she goes on to remind us that normative critical thought has always been 'in an "official" conflict with the taste of the "masses" ' (1988, p. 92).…”