Mojca Kovačič
Biographic Data
| ID | 73480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mojca Kovačič |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mojca |
| FAMILY NAME | Kovačič |
| SIGNATURE | KOVAČIČ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Ethnomusicology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2496-6881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Negotiating Authenticity through Folk Singing Interpretations
This article explores how interpretations of folk singing in Slovenia reflect shifting concepts of authenticity within heritage processes. Drawing on historical analysis and ethnographic interviews, it argues that authenticity is not a fixed trait but a relational category shaped by institutional norms, historically informed aesthetics, embodied performance, and performers’ emotional connection to songs
Introducing the digitised dataset of Slovenian folk ballads
This paper introduces a notated music dataset of Slovenian folk song ballads, including selected recordings and annotations for 402 monophonic songs. It traces the historical trajectory of the materials, from their collection to their digitisation, providing a statistical overview of the collection’s structure and outlining the theoretical framework for the analysis of key elements: context (metadata), content (music), and lyrics. The study ackno…
Zakaj, Zakoj, Warum, or Why: Multilingualism in Austrian Carinthian Popular Music
The article deals with the issue of linguistic choice in the popular music of the Slovenian minority in Austrian Carinthia. The observation of multilingualism or language choice in minority contexts is multifaceted; it demonstrates the need to understand the embeddedness of these phenomena within space, history, politics, power relations, collective consciousness, levels of socialization, and personal experience
Migracije nacionalizacije glasbe: Od Ljudske K Narodnozabavni
V prispevku sta obravnavani ljudska in narodnozabavna glasba z vidika razvoja njunih simbolnih pomenov za ožjo in širšo skupnost. V središču opazovanja glasbenih zvrsti, ki v sebi združujeta številne dihotomije, je prav migriranje oz. prehajanje pomenov, moralnih in estetskih vrednot iz enega obdobja v drugega, iz ene skupnosti v drugo ali iz enega družbenega sloja v drugega. Če je v 20. stoletju ljudska glasba predstavljala eno ključnih narodnor…
Affect's Social Lives
Why is the talk about Yugoslavia still emotionally charged and situated in the registers of passion, pain, sentimental recollections, or nostalgia even 30 years after its violent dissolution? How is the sphere of the affective, sensory, and embodied fundamental to understanding the historical project of Yugoslavia and its afterlives? Social Lives of Affect: Post-Yugoslav Reflections addresses these questions and explores how the attempts to conce…
Creating Atmospheric Coherence through Commemorative Rituals, Singing Partisan Songs, and Rehearsed Affect
U ovom se članku opisuje komemorativni događaj koji se održava u Janču pokraj Ljubljane te ga se smješta u širi okvir diskursa komemoracija u postsocijalističkom kontekstu u Sloveniji. Načini postizanja ritualizacije prošlosti i sadašnjosti te posredovanja između njih analiziraju se pomoću vizualnih i zvučnih sredstava stvaranja afektivnih atmosfera. U tom je diskursu glazba sredstvo koje objedinjava kako sudionike događaja tako i odnose prošlost…
Music, Migration and Minorities: Perspectives and Reflections
The article offers a brief presentation of the main streams of ethnomusicological research on music, migration and minorities while reflecting on their theoretical and methodological frameworks. It pays particular attention to the intersection with other ethnomusicological sub-fields and its role in challenging the methodological nationalism and Western-centric views
Identifications through Musical Expressions of Africanness in Slovenia
In the article I am interested in the ways that Africanness (as a representation of and identification with African culture) is musically performed in Slovenia. Africanness is being publicly represented either by African diaspora that is negotiating their ethnic identifications through culture or non-Africans that have established connections with African culture for various reasons. The article illustrates in which cases music offers a space of …
Sacred Noise”: The Case of the Ezan in Ljubljana
This paper considers the situation in which the anticipation of a new sound in public space gives rise to political, social, and ideological debates. It demonstrates how the religious sound of ezan (the Muslim call to prayer) caused public discomfort even prior to becoming a part of Ljubljana’s soundscape, how power politics affected society and its religious sphere, and what kind of discourses take place in regard to the sounds associated with t…
Gender Relations in Instrumental Folk Music in Slovenia
Gender studies are an important part of ethnomusicological research, but in Slovenia, not many studies or discussions have been dedicated to this topic. The position of a woman in the second half of the 20th century in Slovenia is, on the one hand, strongly connected to the socialist social system and its policy of equality, but, on the other, the article also reveals control mechanisms that maintained hierarchical positions between genders. Seve…
Recordings of Music Society Glasbena Matica Vocal Ensembles and the Representation of Folk Music at the Time of the Earliest Gramophone Recordings
Zvočni posnetki na gramofonskih ploščah, ki so jih snemalne družbe posnele s slovenskimi izvajalci na začetku 20. stoletja, omogočajo uvid v zvočnost tedanjega časa. Samo na podlagi podatkov o posnetkih ter notnih zapisov objavljenih glasbenih del bi si namreč ustvarili povsem drugačno predstavo o podobi katerega koli poustvarjenega glasbenega dela. Prispevek se osredotoča na posnetke vokalnih zasedb Glasbene matice in poleg podatkov o izvajalcih…
In Search of the ‘Folk Character’ We Would like to Hear. The Dichotomy between Folk, the Profession, and Scholarship
Public Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for Cultural Activities (JSKD) is the main actor of the current cultural policy in the field of folklore activities in Slovenia. Guidelines of reinterpretation of dance and music traditions are formed by amateurs dealing with folklore, as well as scholars are invited to participate. After the historical review of the cultural policy in Slovenia, the article, based on interviews with performers of musical tr…
Bell Chiming. National Speciality or Invented Tradition
Pritrkavanje je že nakaj časa tako v znanosti kot širši javnosti opredeljeno kot 'slovenska posebnost, ki ji ni para zunaj naši etničnih meja'. Tovrstno prepričanje pa je temeljilo na raziskavah, ki niso nikoli presegale geografskih okvirov naše države. Zadošča, da primerjamo opredelitve 'slovenskega pritrkavanja' z nekaterimi drugimi praksami igre na zvonove, in ugotovimo, da je zelo razširjeno tudi v evropskem prostoru. Poudarjanje unikatnosti …
Bells. Their Musical and Semantic Characteristics in Modern Slovenian Poetry, Folk Songs, Proverbs, and Sayings
Pogosta upodobitev zvona v ljudski in umetni poetiki priča o velikem pomenu, ki ga je imel zvon v življenju skupnosti oziroma posameznika. Podrobnejši pogled v dela pesnikov slovenske moderne, v slovenske pregovore, reke in ljudske pesmi odkriva, na kakšne načine zvon zaživi v teh delih, kdaj prevlada njegova semantična, kdaj zvočna stran, v kakšen kontekst je vključena njegova stvarna, metaforična ali simbolna upodobitev ter kako se njegova zvoč…
Bells. Their Musical and Semantic Characteristics in Modern Slovenian Poetry, Folk Songs, Proverbs, and Sayings
Pogosta upodobitev zvona v ljudski in umetni poetiki priča o velikem pomenu, ki ga je imel zvon v življenju skupnosti oziroma posameznika. Podrobnejši pogled v dela pesnikov slovenske moderne, v slovenske pregovore, reke in ljudske pesmi odkriva, na kakšne načine zvon zaživi v teh delih, kdaj prevlada njegova semantična, kdaj zvočna stran, v kakšen kontekst je vključena njegova stvarna, metaforična ali simbolna upodobitev ter kako se njegova zvoč…
Bells. Their Musical and Semantic Characteristics in Modern Slovenian Poetry, Folk Songs, Proverbs, and Sayings
Pogosta upodobitev zvona v ljudski in umetni poetiki priča o velikem pomenu, ki ga je imel zvon v življenju skupnosti oziroma posameznika. Podrobnejši pogled v dela pesnikov slovenske moderne, v slovenske pregovore, reke in ljudske pesmi odkriva, na kakšne načine zvon zaživi v teh delih, kdaj prevlada njegova semantična, kdaj zvočna stran, v kakšen kontekst je vključena njegova stvarna, metaforična ali simbolna upodobitev ter kako se njegova zvoč…
Bell Chiming. National Speciality or Invented Tradition
Pritrkavanje je že nakaj časa tako v znanosti kot širši javnosti opredeljeno kot 'slovenska posebnost, ki ji ni para zunaj naši etničnih meja'. Tovrstno prepričanje pa je temeljilo na raziskavah, ki niso nikoli presegale geografskih okvirov naše države. Zadošča, da primerjamo opredelitve 'slovenskega pritrkavanja' z nekaterimi drugimi praksami igre na zvonove, in ugotovimo, da je zelo razširjeno tudi v evropskem prostoru. Poudarjanje unikatnosti …
In Search of the ‘Folk Character’ We Would like to Hear. The Dichotomy between Folk, the Profession, and Scholarship
Public Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for Cultural Activities (JSKD) is the main actor of the current cultural policy in the field of folklore activities in Slovenia. Guidelines of reinterpretation of dance and music traditions are formed by amateurs dealing with folklore, as well as scholars are invited to participate. After the historical review of the cultural policy in Slovenia, the article, based on interviews with performers of musical tr…
Recordings of Music Society Glasbena Matica Vocal Ensembles and the Representation of Folk Music at the Time of the Earliest Gramophone Recordings
Zvočni posnetki na gramofonskih ploščah, ki so jih snemalne družbe posnele s slovenskimi izvajalci na začetku 20. stoletja, omogočajo uvid v zvočnost tedanjega časa. Samo na podlagi podatkov o posnetkih ter notnih zapisov objavljenih glasbenih del bi si namreč ustvarili povsem drugačno predstavo o podobi katerega koli poustvarjenega glasbenega dela. Prispevek se osredotoča na posnetke vokalnih zasedb Glasbene matice in poleg podatkov o izvajalcih…
Gender Relations in Instrumental Folk Music in Slovenia
Gender studies are an important part of ethnomusicological research, but in Slovenia, not many studies or discussions have been dedicated to this topic. The position of a woman in the second half of the 20th century in Slovenia is, on the one hand, strongly connected to the socialist social system and its policy of equality, but, on the other, the article also reveals control mechanisms that maintained hierarchical positions between genders. Seve…
Sacred Noise”: The Case of the Ezan in Ljubljana
This paper considers the situation in which the anticipation of a new sound in public space gives rise to political, social, and ideological debates. It demonstrates how the religious sound of ezan (the Muslim call to prayer) caused public discomfort even prior to becoming a part of Ljubljana’s soundscape, how power politics affected society and its religious sphere, and what kind of discourses take place in regard to the sounds associated with t…
Music, Migration and Minorities: Perspectives and Reflections
The article offers a brief presentation of the main streams of ethnomusicological research on music, migration and minorities while reflecting on their theoretical and methodological frameworks. It pays particular attention to the intersection with other ethnomusicological sub-fields and its role in challenging the methodological nationalism and Western-centric views
Identifications through Musical Expressions of Africanness in Slovenia
In the article I am interested in the ways that Africanness (as a representation of and identification with African culture) is musically performed in Slovenia. Africanness is being publicly represented either by African diaspora that is negotiating their ethnic identifications through culture or non-Africans that have established connections with African culture for various reasons. The article illustrates in which cases music offers a space of …
Creating Atmospheric Coherence through Commemorative Rituals, Singing Partisan Songs, and Rehearsed Affect
U ovom se članku opisuje komemorativni događaj koji se održava u Janču pokraj Ljubljane te ga se smješta u širi okvir diskursa komemoracija u postsocijalističkom kontekstu u Sloveniji. Načini postizanja ritualizacije prošlosti i sadašnjosti te posredovanja između njih analiziraju se pomoću vizualnih i zvučnih sredstava stvaranja afektivnih atmosfera. U tom je diskursu glazba sredstvo koje objedinjava kako sudionike događaja tako i odnose prošlost…
Zakaj, Zakoj, Warum, or Why: Multilingualism in Austrian Carinthian Popular Music
The article deals with the issue of linguistic choice in the popular music of the Slovenian minority in Austrian Carinthia. The observation of multilingualism or language choice in minority contexts is multifaceted; it demonstrates the need to understand the embeddedness of these phenomena within space, history, politics, power relations, collective consciousness, levels of socialization, and personal experience
Migracije nacionalizacije glasbe: Od Ljudske K Narodnozabavni
V prispevku sta obravnavani ljudska in narodnozabavna glasba z vidika razvoja njunih simbolnih pomenov za ožjo in širšo skupnost. V središču opazovanja glasbenih zvrsti, ki v sebi združujeta številne dihotomije, je prav migriranje oz. prehajanje pomenov, moralnih in estetskih vrednot iz enega obdobja v drugega, iz ene skupnosti v drugo ali iz enega družbenega sloja v drugega. Če je v 20. stoletju ljudska glasba predstavljala eno ključnih narodnor…
Affect's Social Lives
Why is the talk about Yugoslavia still emotionally charged and situated in the registers of passion, pain, sentimental recollections, or nostalgia even 30 years after its violent dissolution? How is the sphere of the affective, sensory, and embodied fundamental to understanding the historical project of Yugoslavia and its afterlives? Social Lives of Affect: Post-Yugoslav Reflections addresses these questions and explores how the attempts to conce…
Negotiating Authenticity through Folk Singing Interpretations
This article explores how interpretations of folk singing in Slovenia reflect shifting concepts of authenticity within heritage processes. Drawing on historical analysis and ethnographic interviews, it argues that authenticity is not a fixed trait but a relational category shaped by institutional norms, historically informed aesthetics, embodied performance, and performers’ emotional connection to songs
Introducing the digitised dataset of Slovenian folk ballads
This paper introduces a notated music dataset of Slovenian folk song ballads, including selected recordings and annotations for 402 monophonic songs. It traces the historical trajectory of the materials, from their collection to their digitisation, providing a statistical overview of the collection’s structure and outlining the theoretical framework for the analysis of key elements: context (metadata), content (music), and lyrics. The study ackno…
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