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Serbian Composers in Western Europe Today

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ID7733686
AuthorsIvana Medić (0000-0002-8917-9734, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume41
Issue5-6
Pages644-665
Publication date2022-11-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary Music Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0749-4467 • E-ISSN: 1477-2256
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07494467.2022.2152217
OpenAlexW4315700683
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited11

This article is an extract from my ongoing investigation of the destinies of Serbian composers who have emigrated since the early 1990s, a period that was marked by the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the ensuing wars when hundreds of thousands of professionals left the country and settled all over the world. Such a massive ‘brain drain’ has had a devastating impact on many professional realms in the entire former-Yugoslav region. Thus far, I have located more than seventy Serbian composers who currently live and work abroad, a significant number for such a small country. In this article, I focus on the professional and personal trajectories of several composers who have managed to establish successful careers in various Western European countries. A recent monograph by Elena Dubinets, Russian Composers Abroad: How They Left, Stayed, Returned (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021), serves as my discoursive ‘counterpoint’

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Counterpoint · Montenegro · Political science · Serbian · Sociology · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Law

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