Projects / Programmes
Zvoki meje: Glasba in identiteta v obmejnih območjih v Sloveniji (Slovene)
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.08.00 |
Humanities |
Musicology |
|
Researchers (1)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
29339 |
PhD Ana Hofman |
Musicology |
Head |
2009 - 2011 |
425 |
Organisations (1)
Significance for science
The project results offer a new interpretive framework for understanding the role of music in the processes of creation and negotiation of both symbolic and real boundaries and the processes of establishing cultural hybridity in the border areas. The project results point to the ways in which the “national” music practices such as folklore (often also recognized as nationalistic), gain new, more complex and multisided notions in the borderlands. By using the “most representational” musical genres, based on the canon of the “national musical heritage,” the usage of folklore performances becomes ambivalent. The examination of the musical networks around The Folklore Festival in Beltinci illuminated the processes of establishing and shaping local musical heritage and the politics of its representation in transcultural and transnational musical arenas. The Festival proves to be an extremely interesting example of the ways “national” music forms, such as folklore, getting new and contested interpretations. Considering that the study was interdisciplinary designed, the results have brought new parallel knowledge within ethnomusicology and the borders, mobility and spatial studies. By introducing the innovative approaches and interdisciplinary methods of analysis of musical representations of the border experience, the project introduced new conceptualizations of the place in ethnomusicological research, based on the spatial and border studies. The project has produced relevant results to a new scholarly field of “place-based” ethnomusicology and allowed further upgrading of the theory. It also raised important theoretical questions and encouraged thinking about the role of music in the creation of “border” and “hybrid” cultural heritage in Slovenia.
Significance for the country
The project contributes to a better understanding of the cultural productions and identity performances in the Slovenian border areas in the processes of EU integration and globalization. It puts on light the importance of the local musical practices and their potential to create social and musical networks and sites of belonging in Slovenia; in shaping new subjectivities and identities in the borderlands. The project opens a question of cultural exchange among Slovenians living outside the national borders – in the first hand Porabian Slovenians in Hungary and Slovenian minority in Koroška, Austria, and traces the transformations of this cooperation from the socialist times to nowadays. It points to the ways the folkloric activities significantly contributed and still contribute to strengthening the local communities’ projects and cultural links between the “homeland” and Slovenians outside the national borders. With extensive fieldwork and through focusing on the complex relationship between the histories, memories, affiliations and conflicts in the border areas, the project results helps in the development of inclusive policies that will contribute to preservation of cultural identities of groups as well as individuals. The project also contributes to democratization and pluralization of the discussion on the cultural heritage in Slovenia and to a better understanding of the current processes of Europeanization and regionalization. The project results will also offer potential sources for defining strategies in the context of cultural policies, important initiatives at both national and local levels.
Most important scientific results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
Most important socioeconomically and culturally relevant results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
