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Музика във виртуалната реалност
Music in virtual reality

Author(s): Mirna Mlikota-Dizdarević
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Нов български университет
Keywords: music; online networks; virtual reality; digitalization; 21st century

Summary/Abstract: Over the past few years, music has got a new medium/way of presentation, namely a virtual reality that entirely changed its ongoing development. The main subject of this article is to place focus on music and its survival in the virtual reality, providing an overview of various occurrences that affected this phenomenon. Some of those include online system, as well as possible responses to the issues like digitalization as positive or negative innovation, *struggle* with the commercial musician trends and their popularity for views and profit, as well as the key question whether we shall become known as a society by the stagnation of music in its development in the 21st century, or shall we use the advantages of the present technologies and develop music in the right direction?