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Another contribution by Tatjana Marković, this time she reports from the symposium Research of Dance and Music on the Balkans:

The first meeting of the newly-established Association of the Balkan Music and Dance that was held in December 6-9 in Brčko, Bosnia, under the auspices of the International Musicological Society. Namely, the IMS has been fostered both study groups focused on specific topics (such as, for instance, Cantus planus, Musical iconography in European art, Musicology and computers) as well as wider regional groups of scholars. The latter groups include three associations, related to the Baltic countries, the Eastern Slavic countries (Russia, Ukraine, Moldova), and now also the Balkans.

The first international conference dedicated to the Balkan Music and Dance was organized by the International Musicological Society, the Musicological Society of Republika Srpska in Banja Luka, the Musicological Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, and the Association for Fostering Serbian Cultural-Historical Heritage Baštinar in Brčko. Twenty-one proceedings (see below) in English were edited by Dimitrije Golemović and published before the conference, presenting the result of research traditional, classical, popular music, and also music institutions from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria as well as from Greece.

Following the usual and undoubtedly the most conventional (self)presentation of the Balkans, the papers were dedicated mainly to folk music and its transpositions in popular or so-called "newly-composed traditional music", classical, rock, by ethnomusicologists, ethnochoreologists, and musicologists. Variety of topics assumed also different methodologies, ranging from historical surveys, positivistic descriptions, to the structuralist and postmodern approaches:

• Athena N. Katsanevaki (Greece): "LIFE-RESEARCH": APPROACHING THE FIELD AS A LIFE-LONG PROCESS
• Danka Lajić (Serbia): SERBIAN EPIC PRACTICE IN COMMUNICOLOGY DISCOURSE - A CONTRIBUTION TO METHODOLOGY OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
• Mirjana Zakić (Serbia): THE TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS IN SERBIA IN THE SCOPE OF PERMEATING WITH THE EASTERN AND WESTERN MUSICAL PRACTICES
• Rodna Veličkovska (Macedonia): LIVING SINGING TRADITION OF SANT LAZARUS IN MACEDONIA
• Svanibor Pettan (Slovenia): ALATURKA–ALAFRANGA CONTINUUM IN BALKAN MUSIC AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
• Ivana Perković Radak (Serbia): SLAVIA ORTHODOXA RESTORED? CHURCH ORTHODOX POLYPHONY IN BALKAN COUNTRIES IN THE 19th AND BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY
• Irina Maksimović (Serbia): BALKAN MOSAIC: TRADITIONAL MUSIC IN THE AGE OF ELECTRONIC (RE)PRODUCTION
• Iva Nenić (Serbia): "OLD FOUNDATION, NEW TOWER": CHANGING PERSPECTIVES OF SERBIAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC
• Dimitrije O. Golemović (Serbia): NEWLY-COMPOSED FOLK SONG AS THE KEEPER OF TRADITIONAL COMPOSING PRINCIPLES
• Lozanka Pejčeva (Bulgaria): SNEJANKA BORISOVA: ČIČOVITE KONjE IN THE HERGELE OF GORAN BREGOVIĆ
• Vencislav Dimov (Bulgaria): ZURNA MUSIC AND MUSIC INDUSTRY
• Selena Rakočević (Serbia): A COMPARATIVE ANALIYSIS OF MUSICAL AND DANCE STRUCTURES: THE CASE OF BANATIAN VELIKO KOLO
• Olivera Vasić (Serbia): RITUAL MESSAGES CONVEYED BY THE MOVEMENTS OF LAZAR DANCES OF THE CENTRAL BALKANS
• Jelena Jovanović (Serbia): ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN ŠUMADIJA
• Jasmina Talam (Bosnia and Herzegovina): INSTITUTE FOR MUSICOLOGY OF THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN SARAJEVO
• Lana Šehović (Bosnia and Herzegovina): TEN YEARS OF EXISTENCE OF THE SOCIETY OF MUSICOLOGY OF THE FEDERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
• Mirela Šečić (Bosnia and Herzegovina): SERBIAN CHORAL ASSOCIATION GUSLE: The First Twenty Years
• Tatjana Marković (Serbia): PROFILING SERBIAN FOLK MELODIES: RECEPTION/S BY 19th- AND FIRST HALF OF 20th-CENTURY MUSIC WRITERS
• Milorad Kenjalović (Bosnia and Herzegovina): THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE MANIFESTATION OF VLADO MILOŠEVIĆ’S DAYS TO RESEARCH TRADITIONAL SONGS AND DANCE
• Dragica Panić-Kašanski (Bosnia and Herzegovina): RESEARCH ARCHAIC AND MODERN IN TRADITIONAL MUSIC TODAY: ON EXAMPLE OF "IZVORNjACI", VOCAL-INSTRUMENTAL BANDS OF NORTHEAST BOSNIA AND POSAVINA
• Aleksandar Đurić (Bosnia and Herzegovina): CULTURE AND EVENT TOURISM IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

The next conference of the Association of the Balkan Music and Dance will be organized in November 2008 in Belgrade, by the International Musicological Society, the Serbian Musicological Society, in collaboration with the Departments of Musicology and Ethnomusicology of the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade. The challenging topic Folklore as a "Vehicle"? should provide not only different ethno/musicological perspectives, but also reconsidering the key question of the Balkan music identity.

More/further Information by the International Musicological Society as well as by Dr. Tatjana Marković

Contributions by Tatjana Marković on Kakanien revisited:

• Idiosyncrasies of the Grand Narratives on Serbian National Identity
• Political, Cultural, Artistic Activities of the Ujedinjena Omladina Srpska as a Case of Networking
• Serbian Choral Societies in the Multi-ethnic Context of 19th–Century Vojvodina