We are happy to report that the International symposium 78 rpm at home: Local perspectives on the early recording industry was successfully held from March 8 to 11, 2023. The rich program consisted of 12 sessions and a keynote address by Mark Katz,...
"The papers presented within this themed issue highlight the potential of the research on early recordings, pointing to those recordings as more than noise and displaying different possible directions into which such research can lead." from the...
On January 26, 2023, we held an old record listening session in the Glina Library and Reading Room, where we were welcomed and hosted by librarian Lidija Klobučar. We went to Glina to honor the memory of one of the important Croatian figures who was...
Last November, Dora Dunatov presented a paper titled "Zagreb case: Changing the face of folk music following a close encounter with 78 rpm gramophone records" at the Austrian conference Sound in the City held in Graz (2022/11/17-18). The conference...
On November 7, 2022, we held an old record listening session in the Voltino library in cooperation with the Center for Civil Initiatives. The listening session was dedicated to the earliest examples of the Kajkavian repertoire recorded on shellac and...
Last November, project collaborator Nada Bezić prepared a feature for the radio broadcast Tragom glazbe by editor Gordana Krpan played on the 3rd program of Croatian Radio. In the broadcast, Bezić talked about the beginnings of the record industry in...
Project collaborator Tanja Halužan was a guest on the radio broadcast Kajkaviana edited by Ana Lacković Varga on Radio Sljeme (October 13, 2022). That evening, she presented the Kajkavian repertoire recorded on early shellac records of the record...
"KAJ" ON SHELLAC GRAMOPHONE RECORDS: Kajkavian popevka in the early days of the record industry in Croatia On Wednesday, September 7, 2022, we continued the sequence of old record listening sessions, but this time, we moved to the north of Croatia....
On Tuesday, July 19, 2022, we organized the seventh Old record listening session. This time, its concept was appropriated for the new surroundings provided by the RO&DO bar (Britanac square, Ilica 73) in Zagreb, which hosted the collector Mikula...
We are happy to announce an international symposium that will be organized within our project in March 2023! The symposium titled 78 rpm at home: Local perspectives on the early recording industry will be held from March 9th to 11th, 2023 onsite, at...
On Thursday, June 16, 2022, project associate Nada Bezić was a guest on the show "Nepregledno blago" edited by Vesna Jurić Rukavina on Radio Sljeme. She presented Irma Polak, the Croatian-Slovenian operetta queen who eventually became the "manager of...
This May, Dora Dunatov presented the project at the 56th Annual Conference of the ARSC [Association for Recorded Sound Collections] (May 19-21, 2022). The program of the entire conference and a summary of the presentation are available here. Dora...
On May 20, 2022, Željka Radovinović and Nada Bezić presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Croatian Musicological Society. Željka Radovinović presented the paper titled "Politics and music on domestic gramophone records made out of shellac in...
On Tuesday, May 3, 2022, we continued our sequence of 78 rpm record listening sessions. After the prominent performers of Dalmatian songs recorded during the first half of the 20th century, to whom we listened in January 2022, our focus turned to...
On Thursday, January 20, 2022, another old record listening session was held at the library of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb. This time, it was dedicated to prominent performers of Dalmatians songs that were recorded on...
Two days after lighting the third Advent candle, we organized the fourth old record listening session with a debate club. The session was held on December 14, 2021 in hybrid form; live in the library of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore...
On Sunday, December 12, 2021, our associate Irena Miholić was a guest on the show "Bakina škrinjica" edited by Karmen Valenta and broadcasted on Radio Quirinus. They talked about music forms, genres of traditional, popular and artistic music, sheet...
Doctoral student Dora Dunatov presented at the JuMuWi Symposium organized by the Austrian Musicological Society (ÖGMW), held from 25 to 27 November 2021. The title of her poster presentation was "Sounding moments in history: Croatian record...
On Friday, November 26, 2021, we were guests of the radio show "Putovi hrvatske glazbe" edited by Iva Lovrec Štefanović. The show was broadcasted on the Third channel of Croatian Radio. The guests of the show were project leader Naila Ceribašić,...
From October 26 to 29, 2021, the Croatian Archival Society and the State Archive in Split organized 6th Congress of Croatian archivists. This year's theme was "On the threshold of the 3rd decade of the 21st century - inclusion as a condition". The...
On October 29, 2021, another Old record listening session with a debate club was organized. The Listening Session was held live, in the staff room of the Music Academy in Zagreb and online, via the Zoom platform. The theme of the third Old records...
In order to celebrate the World Day of Audiovisual Heritage, October 27, 2021, the Serbian Institute of Musicology SASA organized an international scientific conference titled "Sound Heritage in Ethnomusicology: Approaches and Perspectives". The...
In September 2021, project associate Irena Miholić presented the project at the IASA 2021 conference (2021/9/27-30). The presentation of her paper titled "Researching the sound, (re)writing the music history: Ethnomusicological research of shellac...
On August 12, 2021, Jelka Vukobratović presented at the isaScience 2021 Conference, an international conference for interdisciplinary research on music and performing arts organized by the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria. She...
From July 26 to 30, 2021, the International Association of Music Libraries organized a 70th anniversary congress. The congress was attended by our project collaborator Željka Radovinović, presenting the poster titled "The record industry in Croatia...
On Tuesday, July 6, 2021, we presented the project on Radio Križevci in the show "Ne dirajte mi krugove" edited by Ratko Matić. The guest of the show was Jelka Vukobratović. Dedicated to early Croatian discography, the show emphasized the popular...
On Monday, June 21, 2021, the Third Program of Croatian Radio broadcasted the radio show Traditional Music edited by Sonja Gospodnetić. In the first part of the one-hour show, the project was presented by Joško Ćaleta, Tanja Halužan, and Dora...
On June 11, 2021, Naila Ceribašić and Dora Dunatov presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the Croatian Musicological Society. Naila Ceribašić presented the "Report on the first year of work on the project “The record industry in Croatia from 1927...
On May 26, 2021, the leader of the project Naila Ceribašić presented at the International Artistic and Scientific Conference „Pajo Kolarić and his time“, co-organized by J. J. Strossmayer University and the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek. The...
This May, the project was presented at the 55th Annual ARSC [Association for Recorded Sound Collections] Conference (2021/5/13-15). Two online presentations were a part of the session titled "Eastern European Recorded Sound". The whole conference...
Over the past six decades, the way that classical scores are performed has grown increasingly homogenised. We make the case for allowing performances to be much less uniform and performers much more creative. [Challenging Performance] Last week (May...
As of today, another Elektroton sales catalogue is available on our webiste! Elektroton Catalogue no. 3 (with the appendix sheet) is currently stored in the fund of the Law Office of Milan Dečak in the State Archives in Zagreb (HR-DAZG-93). A copy of...
We are grateful to Mr. Suan Pan, who is known by this name on the internet portals related to domestic record production at 78 rpm, for giving us a scanned copy of Jugoton's catalogue of gramophone records from 1950: Jugoton 1950. With his...
As of February 2021, the comprehensive Croatian e-discography database is available for public search. The base covers the period of shellac gramophone records at 78 rpm produced by three record companies based in Zagreb: Edison Bell Penkala,...
On Friday, January 29, 2021, the second old record listening session with the debate club was held completely online. It was dedicated to the only informative-interpretative center of industrial heritage in Croatia - the Dutch House of the City...
In two three-hour terms, on Monday and Wednesday, January 18 and 20, 2021, doc. dr. Drago Kunej held a workshop on the technical characteristics of 78 rpm music records. He is currently the head of the sound archive of the Institute of...
On December 10th, 2020 we presented at the 12th International Symposium Music in Society (Sarajevo, 2020/12/10-12). Our panel was called Contributions to the History of the Record Industry. The presenters were: Naila Ceribašić: online presentation...
Jelka Vukobratović: presentation "Ethnomusicological Nationalism and its Innocence in Times of Crisis" partially relating to the materials from the project, at the Symposium "Musicology and Its Future in Times of Crises" (Online Symposium, Zagreb...
The premiere of the music documentary stories "Twenty meters of gramophone records - the collection of Ivan Mirnik" was presented in the radio feature Oda-birano, edited by Iva Lovrec-Štefanović. The radio feature revealed some interesting details...
On Monday, November 16, 2020, a workshop was held with Peter Tschmuck. Tschmuck is head of the Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. The focus of his research is the music...
On Wednesday, 2020/10/21, at the multimedia hall of Zagreb City Library, the first old record listening session was held as a part of this year's event Croatian Book Month. The subject of the session was "Popevke je slagal: Vlaho Paljetak in early...
On September 30, 2020 project leader dr. sc. Naila Ceribašić held a presentation titled “Glazba kao snimka: staro i novo normalno u doba pandemije” at the conference Covid-19 u humanističkoj perspektivi: mutacije straha i kulturne promjene organized...
On September 10, 2020 project leader dr. sc. Naila Ceribašić, and project collaborators dr. sc. Željka Radovinović and dr. sc. Jelka Vukobratović spoke about the project on the show "Nepregledno blago" edited by Ana Lacković Varga (Radio Sljeme)....
