The author considers the importance of translation in conveying the ideas and artistic production of less well-known authors, in this case Serbian author Milica Mićić Dimovska (1947-2013). ...Concentrating on two of her novels, Poslednji zanosi MSS (1996) and Mrena (2002), the article discusses potential political interpretations of Mićić Dimovska's writing, with some attention to its critical reception in Serbia, and speculates on how each of the novels might translate into English.
Following the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and the subsequent international economic sanctions imposed against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that lasted until the early 2000s, a substantial number ...of Serbian composers emigrated to the United States. While this mass exodus of composers and academics had a devastating effect on Serbian cultural life, such a shift, enabled by globalisation and commodification of music, created an interest in Serbian music and culture with American audiences. That is, Serbian émigré composers who fled Yugoslavia during the war conflict conveyed their Serbian identity musically by incorporating certain folk elements. This article examines the unique ways in which select Serbian composers--Aleksandra Vrebalov, Milica Paranosic, and Natasha Bogojevich--integrated their Serbian/Yugoslav background within American multicultural society. More specifically, the article examines the effect of the infusion of Serbian motives in the works of these composers from the perspective of globalisation and commodification in the formation of their émigré Serbian musical identity.
This paper discusses the views of Milica Đurić Topalović, one of the most prominent female socialists in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, on the woman question. Her unjustly neglected works Woman and ...Politics and Woman through Centuries have been taken as examples of characteristic socialist discourses on women’s emancipation. Milica Đurić Topalović’s views greatly advance our knowledge about the relations between various women’s organizations in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the similarities and differences between their interpretations of the concept of emancipation and the solutions to the pressing issue of women’s suffrage.
In examining the urban heritage, which has often been fragmented in Belgrade as a result of different social and political circumstances, the issue of the choice of methodology is often raised in ...urban conservation. The present paper will propose to consider along these lines the role of high (second) Modernism in the architecture and urban development of Belgrade. The strategies of urban conservation focusing on the main issue of the synthesis of the historical and planned structure would be directed towards the Modernist phenomena which are established as a platform structure of the urban conservation of Belgrade's spatial cultural and historical units. The present research analyses the potential and possibilities of implementing the postulates of the Modernist creative efforts in the contemporary architectural, urban planning and conservation theory and practice, with the analytical basis in the seminal work of architect Milica Šterić (1914-1997) - the Energoprojekt building (1956-1960), located in Zeleni Venac Square in Belgrade. This study, which is based on certain aspects of the high Modernism, namely rationalism and neutrality, aims to point out a number of issues in the current globalist textualism, in which concepts of high Modernism and internationalism are evidently manipulated in the historical urban contexts of the city.
Planning and preparing for the biggest sports competitions, such as the Olympic Games, involve controlling and monitoring a great number of factors (scope and intensity of sports training, recovery ...procedures, creating daily routines, athlete's personality traits, injuries, diseases, adverse external environmental factors, etc.). Even in the event of the best possible outcomes of all preparatory processes, achieving success in a competition and winning a medal will depend on details and seemingly unnoticeable procedures that are designed for a specific athlete. The primary aim of this paper was to present all the procedures applied to working with the athletes in tennis and taekwondo, which led to achieving the competition success, i.e. winning medals at the Games at the end of three Olympic cycles (2005-2008, 2009-2012, 2013-2016). The secondary objective of this paper, which is the knowledge transfer aimed at disseminating personal and professional associate experience to other professionals, experts and sports coaches in the field of sports science, was realized by presenting the importance of psychological approach, diagnostic procedures and the application of biomechanical principles during the preparations immediately before a match or a fight.
During the third session of the Section of the Marxist Centre of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Slovenia for Conceptual Questions of Historiography on 26 December 1978, a ...primarily political discussion about a book by the Marxist writer Dušan Kermavner took place. Kermavner was not a member of the League of Communists of Slovenia and was already deceased at the time. The book was about the political history of the Primorska region at the end of the First World War and during Italian occupation. The debate was typical of the totalitarian nature of the self-government system in the SFRY (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) as it exposed the researcher, who was no longer able to defend himself, to political, methodological, scientific and moral criticism. The discussion was actually mainly intended for diverting attention away from the plans of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia to gain complete control over the education system, which followed its 10th congress.
this study represents almost unknown sound sources - recordings of traditional music from the 1950s and 1960s, made on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija region by Miica Ilijin and Dr Radmila ...Petrović, fellows of the Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade. This huge collection consists of several corpuses that arose as results of documenting traditional music in different occasions: from field research, on the one hand, to representative situations, such as concerts, on the other. Thus, the collection shows private and public musical practice in geographically and socio-culturally different settings of Kosovo and Metohija (Prizren, Sredačka zupa, Leposavić and surroundings, Zvečan, and numerous places whose representative performers took part at concerts in towns). Besides, the collection is marked by a multicultural quality: it consists of recordings of music of different ethnic/national groups (on the first place of Serbs, Shqiptars/Albanians, and Turks; it also documents involvement of Roma people in musical life, traditional musical culture of Goranci ethnic group, etc.). Numerous folklore genres witness a plenty of functions that music used to have in traditional life of local inhabitants (from ritual rural music, to music making in towns - singing and playing for entertainment, as primarily artistic expression), while the stylistic features of these musical expressions point to isolation of communities, e.g. to cultural pervasions. The collection shows a trace of extremely important historical period in the process of changing the cultural landscape of Kosovo and Metohija that appeared as a consequence of accelerated industrialisation and urbanisation, as well as of influence of the media and cultural industry. Referring to those, here the collection has been discussed at the first place as a material / substance for fundamental research of traditional music of Kosovo and Metohija, for areal studies, and for cultural history of this region. The interested readers have been directed to other scientific readings of this collection (see: Lajić Mihajlović and Jovanović, in print). Its applicative potential has been recognized widely - from the field of revitalization of traditional music, to engaged projects of overcoming conflicts through arts.
The paper deals with the monument to Milica Stojadinovic-Srpkinja, erected in 1912 in the Vrdnik monastery. The monument is of interest as the first Serbian sculptural monument dedicated to a woman. ...Also of interest is the fact that the monument was initiated and organized by women's organizations, mostly "Dobrotvorna zadruga Srpkinja" (the Charitable Collective of Serbian Women). Acting through a developed network, these women's circles helped to create a public memory of this deserving poetess, recognized as an ideal of female patriotism. By following the process from its beginnings, looking at activities related to fundraising, to the opening ceremony and the further popularization of the monument, this paper analyzes the creation of the cult of a modern national heroine in the context of women's role in the nation and in the public sphere. Publication Abstract
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