Dr Jelena Jovanović is an

ethnomusicologist Ethnomusicology is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context. The discipline investigates social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and investiga ...

and a corresponding member of the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (; , SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841 as Society of Serbian Letters (, DSS). The Academy's membership has included Nobel Prize, Nobel la ...

(SANU).

Biography

Jovanović was born on 27 September 1964 in

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. Upon graduating from Mokranjac secondary music school, she enrolled in the Ethnomusicology Department of the

Belgrade University The University of Belgrade () is a public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Krag ...

Faculty of Music. She graduated in 1991 with the subject "Old wedding songs and customs in Gornja Jasenica - Wedding model, its Forms and Development". Jovanović acquired her master's degree in 2001 with the thesis entitled "Vocal Heritage of the Serbis in Upper Banat Region in Romania in the Light of Authochthonous and Adopted Music Practices", and her Ph.D. degree in 2010 with the thesis "Vocal Tradition of Jasenica Region in the Light of Ethnogenetic Processes". Jovanović has been a research associate in the Institute of Musicology since 2011.

Work

Jovanović's research into Serbian vocal traditions is mainly based on her own field work, as well as on earlier transcriptions made by senior colleagues. She took part in a series of local and international symposia. Her papers have been published in various scientific journals and symposium proceedings. She is a member of ethnomusicological societies in Serbia and abroad (SED, ICTM).

References

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