Naslov
Eva Sedak, a Musicologist in Times of Crises

Autori
Davidović, Dalibor

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Musicology and Its Future in Times of Crises - Book of Abstracts / Kiš Žuvela, Sanja - Zagreb : Muzička akademija Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2020, 31-32

ISBN
978-953-8252-00-6

Skup
International conference “Musicology and Its Future in Times of Crises”

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 25.11.2020. - 28.11.2020

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Crisis, Musicology in Croatia, Eva Sedak, Nationalism, Deconstruction

Sažetak
In response to the “narratives of crisis” that permeate contemporary musicological research and to concerns about the future of the discipline, I would propose to look into its past in order to outline the respective former narratives. My intention is to consider what in such cases is called the "crisis" into which musicology has fallen and how the musicologists tried to deal with it. An example on which I will consider these issues is the work of musicologist Eva Sedak (1938-2017), an author for whose thought about music the term "crisis" was not only one of the constitutive, but she also understood herself as a musicologist in "times of crisis". In this paper, I would like to show that the notion of “crisis” in her writings appears in three characteristic contexts, which to some extent overlap. In the writings from the 1970s, Eva Sedak appeared as a kind of witness to the "crisis" in which, in her opinion, contemporary composition on the one hand and music criticism, on the other, fell. In the second context, which began in the mid-1970s, "crisis" was the term to describe the state of musical life in Croatia in past and present times, which, precisely because of its position in the "border area", posed a challenge to musicological considerations. Finally, in the third context, outlined gradually but particularly strikingly in the late 1990s, the "crisis" emerged as an integral part of a historiographical conception capable of adequately responding to the "crisis" state of music in the "border area". In this context, the notion of "crisis" gradually gives way to the notion of "deconstruction".

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Znanost o umjetnosti

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