Dve Domovini
Volume 46, 2017, Pages 39-55

Gender and music-making in exile: Female Bosnian refugee musicians in Slovenia [Spol in glasbeno ustvarjanje v begunstvu: Bosansko-hercegovske glasbenice begunke v Sloveniji] (Article)

Bartulović A. , Kozorog M.
  • a Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Aškerčeva 2, Ljubljana, SI-1000, Slovenia
  • b Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Aškerčeva 2, Ljubljana, SI-1000, Slovenia, ZRC SAZU, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana, SI-1000, Slovenia

Abstract

This article explores the role of Bosnian refugee women in the music-making and organisational activities of two refugee bands (Dertum and Vali) in Slovenia in the early 1990s. Endorsing the ideas about the transformative power of art and looking beyond the dominant identitarian doxa that views music-making in exile as simply the preservation of the ethnic/national identity in a new context, the article places particular emphasis on the active role of women as creative agents of social change. It traces their role ethnographically not only in the process of reinvention of a traditional musical genre (the sevdalinka), but also in identity negotiations and transformation of the gender and power relations within and beyond the boundaries of the heterogeneous Bosnian refugee community, which had been shaped by the strict Slovenian migration policy. © ZRC SAZU, Inštitut za slovensko izseljenstvo in migracije.

Author Keywords

Slovenia Art and change Music-making Sevdalinka Women refugees Bosnia and Herzegovina gender relations

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ISSN: 03536777
Original Language: English