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Double Standards: Negotiating a Place for Ethnomusicologists in Croatia

The emphasis of the paper is on two parallel trajectories of ethnomusicology in Croatia, one within and another outside academic institution. Institutional approaches could be shortly summarized as an intersection between anthropology of music, music ethnography and music folklore, with the basic aim of understanding, while non-institutional approaches could be categorized as strongly utilitarian, oriented towards collecting, and by that, oriented towards protecting or reviving "authentic" (i.e. rural, old-time and local) music. The latter approaches are much more visible and relevant in public sphere, a state of affairs that creates serious problems for academic, professional ethnomusicologists who have to seek a balance between being socially relevant and, at the same time, doing ethnomusicology. The author's arguments are rooted in the pro and cons of applied ethnomusicology.

ethnomusicology; Croatia; academia; applied ethnomusicology

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