Music as an Instrument of Making a Sociocultural Otherness

Žikić, Bojan; Milenković, Miloš

doi:10.21301/eap.v13i2.1

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“…The major fields of his research primarily relate to cultural ideas about the body, cultural use of human biophysical capacities, and physical cultural interventions on the body. The contribution of this research is in the systematization of local cultural and intercultural ideas about the body and ways of using it (Žikić 2016a , 2018 ).…”

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Emerging subdisciplines in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia: research trends at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Nešković

2023

Int. j. anthropol. ethnol.

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This article presents the in-depth analysis of the disciplinary landscape of ethnology and anthropology in Serbia within the institutional contexts of humanities and social sciences. Focusing on the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, it provides insights into the main subdisciplines, fields, and themes of research since 2006, a time when significant publishing activity was invigorated and the Bologna Process reforms were implemented in Serbian universities. Using a theoretical approach to knowledge production as a complex mosaic of complementary research, rather than a hierarchy of different quality works, the article tracks the dynamics of disciplinary (re)orientations in the Department over the past 16 years. This is accompanied by a methodological approach whereby the author does not assume the role of an epistemic arbiter who selects and labels representative work, but instead invites members of the studied Department to exercise the selection processes by filling out a survey that the author composed and distributed. The article is based on information collected through the survey, the Department documentation, as well as the author’s own interpretation of the published works. Related subdisciplines are grouped in larger wholes and presented in counter-alphabetical order of the names given to them. Finally, the concluding part discusses the innovative and dynamic developments of the Department’s faculty research.

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Emerging subdisciplines in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia: research trends at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Nešković

2023

Int. j. anthropol. ethnol.

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“…Mogućnost aktivnog učestvovanja u konstruisanju, a time i reprezentovanju sociokulturne drugosti muzika duguje 'sopstvenoj' sposobnosti transformisanja od pasivnog zvučnog prostora, koji biva označavan, u aktivni, koji sada dejstvuje na više identitetskih nivoa -individualnom, kolektivnom, lokalnom, globalnom, itd. (Žikić i Milenković, 2018;Ristivojević, 2013;Blagojević, 2019;. Sa stanovišta pravoslavnog bogoslovlja moguće je ponuditi razumevanje Crkve različito od onog koje proizilazi iz definisanja Hrišćanstva kao jedne od monoteističkih religija.…”

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Theologico-ecclesiological analysis of the term 'Church music' in the light of anthropological understanding of music

Stevanović

2023

Zb Akad umetnosti

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Throughout centuries, the concept of church music has held significant importance within the Orthodox Church. Its positive reception in the life of the Serbian Orthodox Church is evident by its frequent usage to describe various musical practices, such as: 'church singing, 'choral singing, 'polyphonic singing (or singing from sheet music)', 'Serbian folk singing', 'Karlovac chant', 'Belgrade chant' or 'Byzantine chant'. Drawing from anthropological research, we establish the definition of music through two interdependent approaches. Music is a cultural construct that lacks uniqueness and universality, but rather possesses a multitude of meanings dependent on collective and individual perspectives. Simultaneously, music is a cultural phenomenon that engenders diverse forms of identity, ranging from ethnic, gender, individual, collective, to local or global identities. From the perspective of Eucharistic theology, the Church is presented as the Mystery of unity between the created and the uncreated, founded in the Trinitarian nature of existence. The identity of the Church is not confined to historical and institutional frameworks, but is found in eschatology - the Kingdom of God. The Eucharistic church singing is examined in relation to church music and its connection with the anthropological understanding of music. The findings are analyzed from the standpoint of Orthodox ecclesiology. This paper aims to explore whether the identification of Eucharistic church singing with music, as a human category, can be positively argued within Orthodox theology.

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“…world music) predstavljaju pozornicu na kojoj se odmeravaju i uzajamno definišu etnički identiteti. Kroz muzičku percepciju i prepoznavanje drugih kultura i stalno postavljanje pitanja "koja je čija muzika", obnavljaju se tenzije između sopstva i drugosti (Ristivojević 2009;Žikić i Milenković 2018). Etničke zajednice pružaju osećaj utočišta u stalnim društvenim pomeranjima, koje čuvaju jedinstvo identiteta, između ostalog i kroz baštinjenje tradicionalne muzike (Goertzen 2001;Manuel 1994).…”

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A Consideration of the Relationship Between Music and Collective Identity: From the Viewpoint of Cultural Psychology of Music

Đorđević

2020

EAP / IEA

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The aim of the present study lies in an effort of converging anthropological, ethnomusicological and psychological approach to the relationship between music and collective identity. Music is considered a socio-cultural artifact, which mediates the processes of collective identity construction, and whose function in such process can be multiple. In order to understand the ways in which it is sutured into (in)formal processes of collective (self)identification, we propose simultaneous consideration of various dimensions: cultural, social, political, psychological. Although there already has been interdisciplinary research of the role of music in the emergence of identity, we advocate for a more complementary approach, by a consideration of the psychological accounts, adjusted to the needs of ethno-anthropological analysis. As the most comprehensive theoretical approach, we propose cultural psychology of music. Future empirical research on specific identity processes mediation by music as cultural artifact, should include the analysis of intersecting local and global social trends, aspects of musicological analysis, specificities of psychological development of identity, the role of socio-political strategies of identity formation, and, last but not least, cultural specificity of the community in focus of the research. We find the complexity of the phenomenon in focus to be obligatory for the complexity of the theoretical and methodological approach.

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Music as an Instrument of Making a Sociocultural Otherness

Cited by 3 publications

References 33 publications

Emerging subdisciplines in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia: research trends at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Emerging subdisciplines in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia: research trends at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Theologico-ecclesiological analysis of the term 'Church music' in the light of anthropological understanding of music

A Consideration of the Relationship Between Music and Collective Identity: From the Viewpoint of Cultural Psychology of Music

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