| Summary: | Folk music of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija is considered to be archaic in
popular discourse. From the scientific side, that is supported by the
ethnomusicological printed and sound recordings, which are one of the first
sources about Serbian music folklore. Ethnomusicology in Serbia is based on
the results of music ethnography of the nineteenth and the twentieth century,
and because of that, it is primary focused on rural tradition. Also in the
last years’, popular music arrangements of some of these songs are often,
whereby music from Kosovo and Metohija is usually perceived as the rural
heritage. Nevertheless, music recorded during pioneer ethnomusicological
fieldworks in Kosovo and Metohija is mostly noted in the cities, in organized
“unauthentic” situations, and the performers were craftsmen, traders and
teachers. Although in the latter ethnomuscological literature music
classification according to the ritual background was common, the most of the
songs recorded on Kosovo and Metohija have not (strict) ritual function and
subject matter. The analysis of the Kosovo and Metohija songbooks of the
eminent ethnomusicologists from Serbia proved that urban folk music was very
present in the field, but troublesome for regular ethnomusicological
classification and interpretation, and also that there were several
informants with urban settlement who performed for these ethnomusicologists
plenty of folk songs. Since the first half of the twentieth century, these
ethnomusicological results have had great result on the popularization of
Kosovo and Metohija music heritage. The main goal of this paper is to point
on unjustified marginalization of the urban folklore at the
ethnomusicological discourse, to illuminate the approaches of the pioneers in
ethnomusicology in Serbia to the music heritage which has special
significance not only in expert framework and to discuss the role of
ethnomusicologist in the creation of the notion of “folk song”. [Projekat
Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. ON 177004: Identiteti srpske muzike
od lokalnih do globalnih okvira: Tradicije, promene, izazovi]
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