Negotiating home through sevdalinka among a new generation of its interpreters: Music and situated belonging in the post-Yugoslav spaceDavidović, Lara (Avtor) Bartulović, Alenka (Mentor) sevdalinkamusichomethe post-Yugoslav spaceBosnia and HerzegovinaThe primary concern of this master’s thesis is centered around the significance of music-making in the perception of home among a new generation of interpreters of sevdalinka, broadly defined as a genre of traditional Bosnian-Herzegovinian music. Based on ethnographic research with three artists, i.e. performers of specific interpretations of this musical genre, the thesis examines how creative engagements with sevdalinka reflect and articulate specific relationships to space, identity and tradition within post-Yugoslav contexts. Sevdalinka has so far been interpreted primarily in a post-war framework (e.g. the context of displacement or the formation of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian diaspora) and embedded in broader processes of understanding nationalization across the former Yugoslavia. Those processes were also often reflected in the national appropriation of this musical genre. Relying on anthropological approaches to music, home and creativity, this work conceptualises music-making as a reflexive process embedded in broader social, cultural, historical and political contexts. The research shows how creative engagements with sevdalinka emerge from situated negotiations with inherited musical, spatial and political frameworks, while simultaneously holding potential for their reinterpretation. Music-making becomes a means of articulating understandings and attachments of past and present homes. At the same time, music, and the interpretation of sevdalinka in particular, offers possibilities for the critical reconsideration about the present and the imagination of different futures.20262026-09-08 08:52:20Magistrsko delo/naloga186977sl