History of Urban Folk Music Practices in South Slavic Countries
History of Urban Folk Music Practices in South Slavic Countries

Summary/Abstract: Despite being widespread, urban folk music practices remained on the margins of musical folkloristic and later on ethnomusicological research in many national scientific traditions. But recently, ethnomusicological research of anthropological orientation raised the issue of non-rural everyday practices, which also inspired an interest in rethinking folk music history. This paper will for the first time consider comparatively the history of urban folk music practices of contemporary south Slavic countries in the period from the second half of the 19th up to the first half of the 20th century. They have a common legacy in the urban folk music, not only because of the influences of global popular music of the time, but also because of pan-Slavic ideas connected to national renaissance movements (related to exemptions from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire), and pan-Balkan reality because of other regional countries, both reflected in music. Culturе tendencies formed urban folk music heritage as a boundary genre between musical folklore, art music and popular music. Based on the comparison of the results published in folkloristic printed collections and ethnomusicological literature, this paper will look for outcomes such as determination of commonly known repertoire, as well as particular musical characteristics of south Slavic urban folk music of mentioned period.

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