Conferenza / Incontro

Folk musical instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina

4 maggio 2023
Orario di inizio 
16:00
Palazzo Paolo Prodi - Via Tommaso Gar 14, Trento
Laboratorio di Filologia musicale
Organizzato da: 
Guido Raschieri e Marco Uvietta
Destinatari: 
Tutti/e
Partecipazione: 
Ingresso libero
Referente: 
Guido Raschieri e Marco Uvietta
Contatti: 
staff di Dipartimento Lettere e Filosofia
0461 282913
Speaker: 
Jasmina Talam

PROGRAMME

h 16.00, Laboratorio di Filologia musicale 

Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the few European countries which continues to boast a large number of instruments of many types and families, by origin and by historical development. A certain number of folk instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina may certainly be considered autochthonous. There is also a number of instruments which originated in many oriental cultures, and which appeared in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the period of Ottoman rule. Some of these instruments were adopted and adapted to our musical practice and are treated as traditional instruments. Austro-Hungarian rule influenced the use and construction of certain folk instruments. 
According to the established classification of Hornbostel and Sachs, musical instruments may be classified into four basic categories: idiophones (percussion, shaken and friction); membranophones (struck membranophones and mirlitons); chordophones (bowed and plucked); and aerophones (free aerophones, flutes, reed instruments and brass instruments).
In my presentation, I will try to provide a comprehensive insight into folk musical instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

BIO

Jasmina Talam earned her PhD degree in ethnomusicology from the Academy of Music, Uni-versity of Sarajevo, where she currently serves as Professor of ethnomusicology and Head of the Institute for Musicology. In 2018, she was awarded a scholarship from the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture for postdoctoral research. Her recent publication is a book, Bosnians in Sweden – Music and Identity (Svenskt visarkiv and Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien, 2019). Her principal research interests are musical instruments, fieldwork and ar-chival research methods, gender, religious musical practices, and the convergence of minorities and migrations. She is corresponding member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture. She serves as ICTM Executive Board Member.