Dalibor Davidović (born 3 January 1972 in

Našice Našice () is a town in eastern Croatia, located on the northern slopes of the Krndija mountain in eastern Slavonia, 51 km southwest of regional hub Osijek. Administratively it belongs to Osijek-Baranja County. Geography Našice is located ...

) is a musicologist and

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. Davidović studied

musicology Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

at the

Zagreb Music Academy The Academy of Music ( hr, Muzička akademija or MUZA) is a Croatian music school based in Zagreb. It is one of the three art academies affiliated with the University of Zagreb, along with the Academy of Dramatic Art and the Academy of Fine Arts. ...

(B.A. and M.A.) and obtained his PhD from the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...

. His principal areas of research are

systematic musicology Systematic musicology is an umbrella term, used mainly in Central Europe, for several subdisciplines and paradigms of musicology. "Systematic musicology has traditionally been conceived of as an interdisciplinary science, whose aim it is to explor ...

and aesthetics of music. He published extensively on the epistemological problems of the music studies. In his book ''Identity and Music: Between Criticism and Technique'' he explores the contemporary music scholarship concerned with identity politics. His recent research has been focused on the notion of

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in the work of

John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading fi ...

, on the music ontology of Jewish philosopher Ivan Focht, and on the work of German artist Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. He teaches at the Department of Musicology at the Music Academy in Zagreb. From 2016 to 2018 visiting researcher at Berlin University of the Arts. He translated into Croatian books on aesthetics and on philosophy of religion.

Books

*''Istraživanja recepcije u muzikologiji i njihovi izgledi'' (Reception Research in Musicology and its Prospects), Zagreb: Croatian Musicological Society, 2002,
''Identität und Musik: Zwischen Kritik und Technik''
(Identity and Music: Between Criticism and Technique), Vienna: Mille Tre, 2006,
''Nach dem Ende der Welt''
(After the End of the World), Rostock: Altstadt-Druck, 2020,

Articles

Foucault hört hin
in: Andreas Holzer & Annegret Huber (eds.): ''Musikanalysieren im Zeichen Foucaults'' (= ''Anklaenge: Wiener Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft''), Wien: Mille Tre, 2014, pp. 55-68,
Branches
''Musicological Annual'' 51 (2015) 2, 9-25. ISSN 0580-373X (On the notion of anarchy in the work of John Cage)

Translations

Alexander García Düttmann Alexander García Düttmann (born 1961 in Barcelona) studied Philosophy in Frankfurt as a student of Alfred Schmidt and in Paris as a student of Jacques Derrida. Career After obtaining his PhD from Frankfurt, he spent two years at Stanford Univ ...

Visconti: Uvidi u krvi i mesu
( Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood), Zagreb: Blok, 2006, *

Christoph Menke Christoph is a male given name and surname. It is a German variant of Christopher. Notable people with the given name Christoph * Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German musician * Christoph Büchel (born 1966), Swiss artist * Christoph Dientzenhof ...

Prisutnost tragedije: Ogled o sudu i igri
(The Presence of Tragedy: An Essay on Judgement and Play), Beograd – Zagreb: Beogradski krug – Multimedijalni institut, 2008, * Jacob Taubes: ''Zapadna eshatologija'' (Occidental Eschatology), Zagreb: Antibarbarus, 2009,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Davidovic, Dalibor 1972 births Living people People from Našice Croatian musicologists Academy of Music, University of Zagreb alumni University of Hamburg alumni