Проблеми институционализације музичког школства у српској и југословенској држави до Другог светског рата
Problems Of Institutionalization Of Musical Education In Serbian And Yugoslav State Until The Second World War

Summary/Abstract: The institutionalization of musical education in Serbia was very slow and discontinuous. The First Music School, established under The First Choral Society (1899), and the Music School Stanković, formed as the department of the Musical Society (1911), were the oldest permanent institution of its kind in Belgrade. They acted as agents of cultural and social modernization by their educational, concert and other activities. However, as other similar institutions of civic type, they did not posses the power to influence the government authorities. Schools were burdened by financial problems they could not solve even with partial state subvention. Although they have proven the quality of teaching by different results of their work they have failed in their attempts to become high state schools. The establishment of the Academy of Music was as late as 1937. This paper examines the position of musical education as the institutionalized praxis that has slowly been incorporated into the structures of the civil society as well as the network of the state institution in Serbia and Yugoslavia until the Second World War. The analysis shows that the inter-war period brought evident improvement in the state treatment of music schools but such changes could not be interpreted as a fundamental shift. Musical education stayed at the periphery of cultural policy as an exclusive educational sphere whose opportunities were limited by political, economical and social context as well as problems of cultural disparity of Serbian and Yugoslav society.

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