Funding Festivals: Bringing the World to Sarajevo
Funding Festivals: Bringing the World to Sarajevo
Author(s): Erica HaskellSubject(s): Music, Social Theory, Sociology of Art
Published by: Muzikološki institut SANU
Keywords: Bosnia-Herzegovina; Sarajevo; music; post-confict; festivals; postsocialist; applied ethnomusicology;
Summary/Abstract: The focus of this article is on the “festivalization” of Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina, after the signing of the Dayton Agreement (1995), and the donor environment during that time that largely supported foreign rather than local performances. I chronicle a shif – from socialist-era regional festivals before the war to post-war period staged multi-day multi-performance events with foreign programming – and highlight the tendency of donors to de-emphasize local diference as a way of creating politically safe aiding strategies. I unpack why the “festival model” was atractive to local and foreign cultural organizers during this period. Specifcally I discuss the reorganization of the Sarajevo Winter Festival as well as other festivals that existed before the war and continued to produce such events afer the war.
Journal: Muzikologija
- Issue Year: 1/2017
- Issue No: 22
- Page Range: 133-149
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English