Jasmina Talam

Biographic Data

ID244432
NAMEJasmina Talam
GIVEN NAMESJasmina
FAMILY NAMETalam
SIGNATURETALAM J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Sarajevo
ORCID0000-0003-0272-6043
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The role and significance of revolutionary songs in the education of young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1945-1991)

    Open AccessNaida Hukic, Jasmina Talam et al.ARTICLEMuzikologija2026

    The paper examines the role of revolutionary and mass songs in music instruction and musical activities in elementary schools in PR/SR Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although the educational system underwent various reform processes that affected the curriculum of music lessons, the revolutionary songs retained their continuity. Drawing on research of the archival materials, curricula in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1948-1980), and songbooks, we present some…

  • The Importance of Matija Murko’s Research for Understanding the Musical Tradition of Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Open AccessDrago Kunej, Jasmina Talam et al.ARTICLETraditiones2020

    The paper presents the research and sound documentation carried out by Matija Murko in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1912–1913 and 1930–1931. It focuses on the importance of Murko’s research and his collected field material in gaining a historical perspective on the past and present musical traditions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its transformations. Murko’s recordings provide some significant insights into the singing of epic songs accompanied by g…

  • A Short Story about a Great Man

    Open AccessJasmina TalamARTICLEMusicological Annual2019

    Bosnian-Herzegovinian ethnomusicology started to develop in the early 1930s. The first Bosnian ethnomusicologist, Friar Branko Marić, began to research the traditional folk music of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1920s and presented the results of his research in the doctoral dissertation Volkmusik Bosnien und der Herzegovina (1936). The first systematic ethnomusicological research was initiated by Cvjetko Rihtman in 1947 within the Institute of F…

  • Echoes of Forgotten Time

    Open AccessJasmina Talam, Lana PaćukaARTICLEMusicological Annual2018

    Traditional folk music of Bosnia and Herzegovina can be best understood in light of the multicultural heritage of Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats, as well as many ethnic minority groups. But in the period 1878–1918, traditional music became open to Western European influences. Openness, as well as exposure, to the “new” becomes one of the characteristic signs of the Austro-Hungarian empire, whose new system of governance brought the unknown Western Eu…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology

    Open AccessJasmina TalamARTICLEMusicological Annual2016Cited by: 2

    In July 2015, Oxford University Press published a substantial volume titled The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, co-edited by two eminent ethnomusicologists, Svanibor Pettan and Jeff Todd Titon. The book is an impressive collection of different approaches in applied ethnomusicology, developed through a combination of ethnographic research (personal experiences and fieldwork in different parts of the world) and contemporary scholarship

  • Creation, Transmission and Performance

    Open AccessJasmina TalamARTICLEMusicological Annual2015

    Singing to accompaniment of the gusle is a very important form of vocal-instrumental performance in the musical tradition of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This paper will present historic sources and research on singing to gusle accompaniment, and the methods by which songs are created, transmitted and performed by guslars

  • Bujić, Bojan

    Jasmina TalamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2014

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Ivan Čavlović, Ankica Petrovic et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001