All Roads Lead to Guča: Modes of Representing Serbia and Serbs during the Guča Trumpet Festival
All Roads Lead to Guča: Modes of Representing Serbia and Serbs during the Guča Trumpet Festival
Author(s): Marija KrstićSubject(s): Customs / Folklore, Music, Photography, Culture and social structure , Inter-Ethnic Relations, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Београду
Keywords: Guča trumpet festival; photographs; identity; the Serbs; the Roma; folk tradition and culture;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper I research a famous Serbian music event, the Dragačevo Trumpet Festival, better known as the Guča festival, by analysing festival’s photographs. I use visitors’ photographs available on one of the websites dedicated to Guča, www.guca.rs and media data, in order to question how the festival’s photographs visually represent the Serbs by discussing several motifs found in the images: festival itself, carnivalesque, national(-istic) elements, and Roma and Serb dualism. The main goal of the paper is to explain and show how Guča festival found its place in modern Serbia and contributed inventing modern European Serbia in spite of its rural, folk, barbarian and sometimes nationalist representation.
Journal: Етноантрополошки проблеми
- Issue Year: 7/2012
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 447-470
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English