Music and Dance of Ethnic Minorities in Slovenia: National Identity, Exoticism, and the Pitfalls of Ethnomusicology

Abstract

V prispevku je predstavljeno glasbeno in plesno delovanje pripadnic in pripadnikov narodnih manjšin, ki jih sestavljajo Albanci, Bošnjaki, Črnogorci, Hrvati, Makedonci in Srbi v Sloveniji, s katerim želijo izraziti svojo nacionalno pripadnost. K ustvarjanju lastne identitete pristopajo različno: nekateri izmed njih na podlagi neposredne izkušnje ob glasbi in plesu v državi porekla, drugi pa posredno – na podlagi glasbe in plesa, ki temelji na motivih države njihovega porekla. Raziskovanje procesov iskanja in ustvarjanja novih skupnih izkušenj je kompleksno: upošteva subjektivne izkušnje pripadnikov skupnosti, kot so na primer spomini in projekcija prostora, in tudi raziskovalno metodologijo aplikativne etnomuzikologije.

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This article presents the music and dance activities of members of the Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, and Serbian minorities in Slovenia that have chosen to express their ethnic identity through music and dance. They build their identity in various ways: some of them have the experience of music and dance from their countries of origin, whereas their children have this experience indirectly. Researching processes of creating new common experiences is complex: it addresses the individual experiences of community members, such as their memories and place projections, and it includes methods of applied ethnomusicology.