V evrocentristično usmerjenih zgodovinah glasbe so imele nacionalne glasbene kulture podrejeno vlogo. V drugi polovici 20. stoletja je proces globalizacije bistveno spremenil razmerja med centrom in ...periferijo ter relativiziral pojem nacionalnega. V novih razmerah je treba najti novo glasbenozgodovinopisno paradigmo, ki bo zajela vso kompleksnost odnosov in aspektov, kot jih v zgodovini glasbe prepoznava sodobna teoretična misel.
Signs of "Small History". Some Introductory Remarks to the History of Croatian Music in the 20th Century. The text deals with the investigation of interpretation and periodization criteria for the ...articulation of the topic "Croatian music of the 20th Century" as a border phenomenon of European (and world) music history on one hand, and of Croatian culture and arts on the other hand. Both border positions result in deviation both from the current dilemma between narrative and structural history when talking globally about the pluralism of music techniques and styles of the 20th century and about the chronological standards of Croatian cultural history on a local level. Further, these deviations open perspectives for various interpretative models, capable of confrontation of the asynchronical in synchronical, accentuation of selected "knots" within the observed phenomenon and establishing their manifold mutual connections, which can all propose a kind of historical discourse as an aesthetically and technically variating construct. In this, a major risk exists that this construct become mired down in a virtual hypothecity both because of the "lacking presence" of the Croatian musical corpus on the level of art practice, and the shortage of corresponding scholarly data. On the other hand, it opens a possibility for construct to be in special concordance with the a-historicity of the music of the 20th century in its entirety. In an attempt to treat questions arising from a regional music history within the context of contemporary ideas in the field of both general and particular musical historiography, the author takes as a starting point the present state of theoretical thought on reaching, in principle, historical factography with the help of historical narration, on the character of the historical discourse most appropriate to the object of investigation itself, and, finally, on the selection and role of possible historical subjects.
