Albanian hidden heritage in Slovenia : some notes on music-making in between the centre and periphery

Bartulović, Alenka (author), Bejtullahu, Alma (author)

Focusing on Albanian communities’ overlooked musical heritage in post-Yugoslav Slovenia, this paper analyses how and why the domi-nant framing of Albanians has reinforced the assumption of the absence of the Albanian heritage. By comparing central and peripheral settings in examining the ambivalence towards this heritage in Kočevje and the recent process of heritagisation in Ljubljana, we challenge the notion that minority cultural recognition occurs uniformly across national space.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Albanians in Slovenia, Albanian music, hidden heritage, marginalisation, Slovenia, Yugoslavia
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 115-140
• Numbering: Letn. 54, št. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-177766
• UDC: 78:39(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 0352-0447
• DOI: : 10.3986/Traditio2025540306
• COBISS.SI-ID: 263636739
• Publication date in RUL: 07.01.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Traditiones. zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje
• Shortened title: Tradit. - Inšt. slov. narodop. Ljublj.
• Publisher: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti
• ISSN: 0352-0447
• COBISS.SI-ID: 16175874

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Skrita dediščina Albancev v Sloveniji

Abstract

V članku je obravnavana spregledana glasbena dediščina albanske skupnosti v postjugoslovanski Sloveniji. Gre za analizo, kako in zakaj je prevladujoče dojemanje Albancev okrepilo domnevo o njeni odsotnosti. S primerjavo urbanega središča in obrobja na primeru protislovnega pristopa k tej dediščini v Kočevju in novejšega procesa dediščinjenja v Ljubljani želimo premisliti podmeno, da se kulturno priznavanje manjšin v nacionalnem prostoru odvija enakomerno.

• Keywords: Albanci v Sloveniji, albanska glasba, skrita dediščina, marginalizacija, performativnost dediščine, pogajanja o dediščini

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J6-4612-2022
• Name: Teža preteklosti. Dediščina večkulturnega območja: primer Kočevske

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P6-0187-2022
• Name: Etnološke raziskave kulturnih znanj, praks in oblik socialnosti