LOCAL MUSIC FROM THE WORLD OR A WORLD MUSIC FROM THE LOCAL? A BOSNIAN POPULAR MUSIC AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE AT HOME AND ABROAD
LOCAL MUSIC FROM THE WORLD OR A WORLD MUSIC FROM THE LOCAL? A BOSNIAN POPULAR MUSIC AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE AT HOME AND ABROAD

Summary/Abstract: Critiques of the World Music industry of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have tended to focus on the institutions invested in the reproduction and dissemination of popular and traditional non-Western musics to new audiences, while neglecting the experiences and motives of individual actors participating in the process. This article draws on my own experience as a participant in the recording of a CD by North-Eastern Bosnian original music ensemble Kalesijski Zvuci in 1991, and its release by the London-based company Globe style Records, to consider the role of contingency, technology and individual interpretation in shaping the procedures by which a local music is selected, recorded and presented to a global public. It further looks at the after life of this and other recordings by the group circulating via traditional media and the internet to examine how its listeners at home and abroad variously use it to acquire social or cultural capital, negotiate their identities as global subjectivities, or maintain effective connections with family and homeland.

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