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Shared Musics and Minority Identities: An Introduction

This volume directly follows the collections of papers from two previous meetings of the Study Group "Music and Minorities". All of them greatly value the existence of different national research traditions, theoretical and methodological differences, and the varying positions of insiders and outsiders in relation to the community under study, as well as different voices of the individual authors. The value of diversity, exceptionally important regarding minorities, finds its counterpart in the value of diverse research approaches. However, the authors? approaches gathered here on the whole could be determined to be conjunctive due to the dominant interdisciplinarity, and the fact that analysis and interpretation are built upon the immediate fieldwork experience and knowledge about researched communities and their musical practices. All of the authors also share in efforts to represent researched communities led by dialogical and humanistic principles, and to contribute to the protection of minority rights and cultural diversity in multicultural and multi-ethnic societies. The second part of the introduction delineates the position of music and minorities studies within Croatian research tradition.

music, minority, ethnomusicology, Croatia

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