FOREIGN MUSIC IN BELGRADE BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS: RECEPTION IN THE HERALD OF THE STANKOVIĆ MUSIC SOCIETY / MUSIC HERALD, 1928–1941
FOREIGN MUSIC IN BELGRADE BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS: RECEPTION IN THE HERALD OF THE STANKOVIĆ MUSIC SOCIETY / MUSIC HERALD, 1928–1941

Summary/Abstract: The longest lasting music journal in Belgrade between the two wars, the Herald of the Stanković Music Society1 (1928–1934, 1938–1941; renamed Music Herald in 1931), was devoted to European and partly to non-European music. This paper gives an overview and analysis of its essays on foreign musical art. The journal was distinguished by debates on opera and musical drama, presentations of music cultures, such as Albanian, modern Jewish, English and American, which Serbian and Yugoslav audiences were not familiar with at the time, writing on the connections between music and literature and, finally, on questions of musical aesthetics. Traces of nineteenth century musicography can be recognized in the propensity of certain authors for the bibliographical genre, although its use was also tied to the journal’s goals of broader popularization.

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