Inside and Outside, Here and There - Music from Bosnian Posavina to Zagreb

Abstract

The essay represents the synthesis of a fieldwork dedicated to the musical practices in use among the communities of Croatian refugees coming from Bosnian Posavina. It analyses the technical, stylistic and organological features of the expressive tradition, focusing primarily on the processes of transformation from the original rural custom to the current application within the urbanised communities. Finally, it looks at the role of making music as an antidote to the sense of material and human loss and of the loss of identity following the drama of the war and forced displacement.