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Harmony of Dissonances: A Challenge to Well-Informed Interventions

The project Harmonija disonance [Harmony of Dissonance], which began in October 2016 at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, was primarily conceived as a meeting place of the Academy's students, experienced folk singers and experts in traditional singing, and guided by the idea of bridging the gaps between the worlds of academic and folk musicians. The project which started as an experiment of a sort, soon turned into lively space of collaborative learning, exploration and creative musicking. Since the very beginning, though, it was clear that the project meant different things to different actors involved in its conception. For some it was supposed to be a one-time event aimed at "presenting" some of the national traditional musics inscribed on the UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the concert programmes of the Academy of Music ; for some a specific challenge of transferring knowledge of traditional music performance into the new context and among musicians educated within the art music education system ; for still others an experiment which could answer whether oldest layers of traditional singing could be intriguing, attractive and/or relevant to the youngest generations of classically trained musicians. Challenges and expectations multiplied when the experimental project evolved into one of the most successful and widely acclaimed projects of the Academy of Music in Zagreb. In this paper, the author will try to address various aspects of this project which in a specific way question sustainability of these kinds of well-informed interventions into music cultures existing in-between top-down and bottom- up actions ; question the positions available to ethnomusicologists in these processes ; as well as attempt to identify gaps in the act of translation of traditional repertoires and performance practices from its original context into new performance spaces and contexts.

music ; intangible cultural heritage ; sustainability ; ethnomusicology

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