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The Status of “Tradition” in Croatian Ethnomusicology, and the Issue of ‘Going Pidgin’ Ethnomusicology

The notion of tradition (tradicija) stands today as the central determinant of music that is in the focus of ethnomusicological research in Croatia. It came into being in the 1990s, and brought four important aspects to the understanding of ethnomusicological subject: construction, continuity of changes, identification of community, and performances of individual. The author also discusses two adjectives derived from the noun tradicija (tradicijsko and tradicionalno), whose fine semantic differences are untranslatable to English, addressing with this example the issue of translating and domesticating from and to English as lingua franca, but also as lingua of dominant discourse and theory. Since language and cognition are inextricably interconnected, what can non-English-thinking- and-speaking ethnomusicologies, or – as is actually more often the case – a kind of pidgin-English ethnomusicologies bring to the discipline at large? Instead of lamenting on the global power relations, the author rather advocates a kind of “going pidgin” ethnomusicology that we (would) all share.

tradition, ethnomusicology, dominant discourse and theory, “going pidgin” ethnomusicology

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