URBAN SOUNDSCAPES OF BERN, LJUBLJANA AND BELGRADE

 International Research Project

 

The project is dedicated to urban city soundscapes. It explores the ways citizens and visitors as well as municipal and state policies shape urban sound capacities. Project focuses on sounds as integral part of the everyday experience of living in the city, as well as on sounds that symbolize the sound heritage of the city: religious sounds, protest sounds, and street music.

 

In this regard, the project addresses wider issues:

– How the sounds of certain parts of the city change due to socio-political processes and economic interests;

– How the sounds of the city reveal contemporary societal issues of globalization, well-being, tourism, and the entertainment industry;

– How the people enter the public political space and act as active actors through active co-creation of urban soundscape;

– How the response to religious sounds reflects historical, political, and social conflicts, and how religious sounds become part of the political life of the city.

Partners

Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts – Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Institute of Ethnomusicology; Slovenia;

University of Bern, Institute of Musicology, Switzerland;

Institute of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Serbia.

Financial source

SNF (Swiss National Foundation), part of SCOPES program

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