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Borders and bridges: Preliminary thoughts on Balkan music
Borders and bridges: Preliminary thoughts on Balkan music

Author(s): Jim Samson
Subject(s): Music, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sociology of Art
Published by: Muzikološki institut SANU
Keywords: Balkan music; East and West in music; centres and peripheries; musical modernity;

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses methodological questions concerning his broad research project on music in the Balkans. He raises a number of questions related to defining national, cultural, and other identities in this region. The text is organised into four sections: 1. An ecumene, 2. Culture as appropriation, 3. Centres and peripheries, and 4. Music gets its own back.

  • Issue Year: 1/2005
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 37-55
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English