The research group consists of seven scholars and a PhD candidate. Along with the project leader, Naila Ceribašić, members of the research group are Joško Ćaleta, Irena Miholić, Tanja Halužan and Dora Dunatov from the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research; Željka Radovinović and Jelka Vukobratović from the Academy of Music in Zagreb; and Nada Bezić from the Croatian Music Institute.
Adjunct Prof. Dr. Naila Ceribašić (Zagreb, 1964) is from 1990 affiliated with, and from 1999 employed in the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb; from 2014 in tenure position of scholarly advisor and adjunct professor. Since 1999 she teaches ethnomusicology at the Department of Musicology and occasionally at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.
Her research and publications address traditional music in eastern Croatia, issues of ethnomusicological analysis, processes of festivalization and heritage production, music in the context of war and political changes on the territory of former Yugoslavia, gender aspects of music-making, musical expressions of ethnic minorities in Croatia, theories and methods in ethnomusicology, and the programme of intangible cultural heritage in Southeastern Europe and worldwide. On international scale, she is especially active in the leading international ethnomusicological organization – International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). From 2011 she is a member of the Executive Board of ICTM, and from 2012 the representative of ICTM at UNESCO, including her service in the evaluation bodies of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2013–2015). On a national level, she is involved in the work of several expert committees at the Ministry of Culture and the Council for National Minorities.
Selected publications relevant for this research project:
Ceribašić, Naila. 2000. “Defining Women and Men in the Context of War: Images in Croatian Popular Music in the 1990s”. In Music and Gender, eds. Pirkko Moisala and Beverley Diamond. Urbana – Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 219-238.
Ceribašić, Naila. 2009. “Festivalizacija hrvatske tradicijske glazbe u 20. stoljeću”. In Hrvatska glazba u 20. stoljeću, eds. Jelena Hekman and Vesna Zednik. Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 241-266.
Ceribašić, Naila, and Joško Ćaleta. 2010. “Croatian Traditional Music Recordings: The 1990s and 2000s”. Journal of American Folklore 123(489): 331-345.
Ceribašić, Naila, Hana Zdunić, Petra Ćaleta, Matija Jerković, Iva Božić, Matea De Bona and Klara Zečević Bogojević. 2019. “Sevdalinka i Zagreb do kraja 1950-ih: Pokušaj rekonstrukcije”. Narodna umjetnost 56/1: 149-191.
Dr. Nada Bezić (Zadar, 1963) is since 1988 head of the library at the Hrvatski glazbeni zavod [HGZ, Croatian Music Institute] in Zagreb. She graduated musicology at the Music Academy of the University in Zagreb, where in 2011 she also defended her PhD in musicology. She graduated in librarianship at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 1992. As a fellow of the “Otvoreno društvo Hrvatska” (Open Society Croatia) she was in 1998 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Her main fields of research are the history of the HGZ and musical life in Zagreb in the 19th and 20th centuries. She has published over 100 academic papers and essays, along with book monographs and has contributed to the Third Programme of Croatian Radio. She is the executive editor of a publishing project of the HGZ Collected Works of Blagoje Bers. She has actively participated in some 30 academic conferences in Croatia and abroad, and in international and Croatian musicological projects. She won Josip Andreis Award of the Croatian Composers’ Society (with E. Sedak and individually), and reward Dragan Plamenac of the Croatian Musicological Society. Dr. Bezić is the author of some 20 exhibitions on topics from the history of Croatian music. She was president of the comittee for music libraries and collections of the Croatian Library Association and is a member of the editorial board of the reviews Arti musices and HaGeZe.
Selected publications relevant for this research project:
Bezić, Nada. 2003. “Izvedbe Zajčevih bečkih opereta u Hrvatskoj u razdoblju 1865.-1918”. In Mladi Zajc: Beč, 1862-1870. Zbornik radova s Međunarodnog muzikološkog skupa održanog 2001. u Rijeci, eds. Vjera Katalinić and Stanislav Tuksar. Rijeka: Izdavački centar Rijeka, 41-49, 147-156.
Bezić, Nada. 2012. Glazbena topografija Zagreba od 1799. do 2010. godine: Prostori muziciranja i spomen-obilježja. Zagreb: Hrvatsko muzikološko društvo.
Ass. Prof. Dr. Joško Ćaleta (Trogir, 1964) is a research associate at the Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb and an assistant professor at the Music Academy and the Institute for Church Music of the Catholic Theological Faculty in Zagreb. He graduated music pedagogy from the University of Split, gained his master thesis from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada), and a PhD from the Department of Musicology at the Music Academy in Zagreb.
In addition to scholarly research, mainly focused on the music practice of Dalmatia and Dalmatian hinterland, he has directed his work towards application of scholarly knowledge and the transfer of musical knowledge as a music author, ensemble conductor and a member of expert committees of numerous folklore festivals and governmental bodies. He participated in the elaboration of several proposals for the protection of intangible cultural heritage at national and international levels. He held papers at numerous domestic and international conferences, published two and edited one book, as well as about 40 scholarly articles in journals and collections of papers, and about a hundred professional papers. He was also music producer of numerous CDs. Since 2001 he has collaborated with National Ensemble “Lado” and founded the vocal ensemble Kantaduri. For his work he was awarded with numerous awards (“Orlando”, “Porin”, “Josip Andreis”, “Ivan Lukačić”, “Milovan Gavazzi”, “Ljubo Stipišić Delmata”) and the prestigious Order of Danica Hrvatska with the character of Marko Marulić.
Selected publications relevant for this research project:
Ceribašić, Naila, and Joško Ćaleta. 2010. “Croatian Traditional Music Recordings: The 1990s and 2000s”. Journal of American Folklore 123(489): 331-345.
Ćaleta, Joško. 2003. “Klapa Singing and Ča-Val: The Mediterranean Dimension of Popular Music in Croatia”. In Mediterranean Mosaic: Popular Music and Global Sound, ed. Goffredo Plastino. New York: Routledge, 241-267.
Ćaleta, Joško. 2008. “The Klapa Movement: Multipart Singing as a Popular Tradition”. Narodna umjetnost 45/1: 125-148.
Ćaleta, Joško, and Jakša Primorac. 2011. “‘Professionals’: Croatian Gusle Players at the Turn of the Millennium”. In Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity, eds. Philip V. Bohlman and Nada Petković. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 145-200.
Dora Dunatov (Zadar, 1992) is an assistant at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb and a doctoral student at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. In 2018, she graduated from Musicology (major in Ethnomusicology) at the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb, receiving the Dean’s Award for Excellence.
The doctoral thesis will observe the earliest Croatian record industry through a commercial aspect, having regard to the domestic, European, and overseas markets. One segment of the work will include the Croatian (and South Slavic) diaspora in the United States. Since 2015, she has been an associate of the Third Program of Croatian Radio, Cantus magazine, and occasionally Vijenac magazine. In 2019 and 2020, she co-organized the first two editions of the Zadar Organ Festival. She also participated in the organization of the Musical Evenings in St. Donat and PagArtFestival. During and after her studies, she presented at international conferences (Student International Musicological Conference; Ethno Days of Zadar County; “Between Then and Now”, FFZG; “Heritage and Festivals”, HED) with topics related to the dance of Zadar as a newly created tradition, the reception, influence, and aftermath of the Yu-Mex phenomenon, the musical heritage in consumer society on the example of the Rovinj Batana House, etc.
Selected publication relevant for this research project:
Dunatov, Dora. 2018. Zadarski tanac (the Dance of Zadar) as a Newly Created Tradition. MA thesis at the Music Academy in Zagreb.
Dunatov, Dora. 2016. Reception, influence, and aftermath of the Yu-Mex phenomenon. Seminar paper at the Music Academy in Zagreb.
Ass. Tanja Halužan (Zagreb, 1991) is affiliated with the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb and is a PhD candidate at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz completed. She gained a master degree in musicology at the Zagreb Academy of Music and was awarded with Dean’s Award for her master thesis.
After completing her master studies, she spent one semester at the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology in Vienna where she worked as an Erasmus+ trainee on classifying and systematizing a collection of instruments owned by the Institute. Her doctoral research concerns music at weddings in Zagreb area, with an important research question pertaining to the relationship between musical performance and musical context. Since 2015 she has worked as an expert associate of the International Folklore Festival in Zagreb, the Croatian Radio’s Third Programme and in the magazine Cantus. She held presentations about her research results at international conferences.
Selected publication relevant for this research project:
Halužan, Tanja. 2014. Etnografija suvremene kantautorske scene u Zagrebu. Diploma thesis at the Music Academy in Zagreb.
Dr. Irena Miholić (Zagreb 1973) is a research associate at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb. She studied percussions and musicology at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, and gained her master degree and her PhD at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
As a percussionist and an educator, she was employed in the Symphonic Orchestra of the Croatian Army, Music School “Elly Bašić”, and in the City Theatre Komedija. She was previously a collaborator on the projects of the Ministry of Education and Science and Croatian Science Foundation and currently participates in two internal projects of the IEF. She is a member of the Institute’s Scholarly Council and a member of the editorial board of the Institute’s series Iz arhiva (From the archives). The topics of her research interests and publications include Croatian traditional and popular music, traditional musical instruments and ensembles, technology in music, and digital humanities. As part of the National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic, she conducted field research on popular/entertaining music and contemporary musical life among Croats in Slovakia and as the author of a textbook for primary schools Croatian Traditional Music she was awarded the “Milovan Gavazzi” prize of the Croatian Ethnological Society.
Selected publication relevant for this research project:
Miholić, Irena. 2009. Zabavna glazba u Hrvatskoj: Etnomuzikološki i kulturnoantropološki pristup. PhD thesis at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.
Dr. Željka Radovinović (nee Dolić, Zagreb 1963) is the head of the library of the Zagreb Music Academy. She graduated musicology and music journalism at the Music Academy in Zagreb and gained her PhD at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.
Since 1987, she has been employed in music collections of libraries in Zagreb (Municipal Library, library of the Music Schools Zagreb, and library of the Academy of Music). She was a regular adjunct collaborator/editor of the Music Programme of the Croatian Radio, publicist in daily and periodical press, and producer of the festival Music Biennale Zagreb. In four terms of office she was the chair of the Commission for Music Libraries and Collections of the Croatian Library Society, and the same applies to her position of the president of the Croatian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centers, a national branch of IAML. Since 2006 she has been dealing with the issues of protection and preservation of sound recordings belonging to Croatian musical heritage. She has presented on the topic at domestic and international conferences, and published several papers. Research on this circle of topics she has completed with her PhD thesis entitled “Zaštita zvučnih zapisa hrvatske glazbene baštine postupkom digitalizacije” (Digitization as a method for preservation of sound recordings of the Croatian musical heritage). She is secretary of the Initiative Committee for the Establishment of the Croatian Central Phonographic Archive, which was established in March 2019.
Selected publication relevant for this research project:
Radovinović, Željka. 2014. Zaštita zvučnih zapisa hrvatske glazbene baštine postupkom digitalizacije. PhD thesis at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.
Dr. Jelka Vukobratović (Koprivnica 1984) is a teaching assistant at the Department of Musicology of the Music Academy in Zagreb. She gained MA in flute performance and musicology at the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb and a PhD at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria.
She worked as a flute and music history professor at the Albert Štriga Music School in Križevci and as a research assistant at the East and Central European Communities Project in Cape Breton, CA, conducted at the Cape Breton University, Canada. She was also a collaborator at the Third Programme of the Croatian Radio. She has actively participated in international academic conferences and published academic papers in domestic and international journals and symposia proceedings and a book chapter. Her research interests are various aspects of the role of popular and traditional music in everyday life, including relation to (ethnic) identity, memory, and musicians’ labour.
Selected publication relevant for this research project:
Vukobratović, Jelka. 2010. “Odnos tradicijske glazbe i zakona o autorskom pravu u Hrvatskoj”. Etnološka tribina 33(40): 97-106.