IASA-BAAC 2026 Conference

Name: Archived Sounds of World War I Prisoners from Serbia: Rethinking Comparative Musicology
Start: 2026-10-20T13:30:00+0300
End: 2026-10-20T14:00:00+0300

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Archived Sounds of World War I Prisoners from Serbia: Rethinking Comparative Musicology

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Throughout the twentieth century, wars led to the loss of valuable sound collections in Serbia. At the
same time, the captivity of prisoners of war from Serbia (Serbs and Roma) in the early twentieth
century also resulted in sound recordings that remain largely unknown in Serbia today. These
recordings are important to analyze as a missing link in the history of local ethnomusicology, while
also listening to them as sonic traces of human marginalization. The research material for this
presentation consists of digitized sound recordings and their metadata from German prison camps,
recorded between 1915 and 1918 and preserved at the Phonogrammarchiv of the Ethnological
Museum and the Lautarchiv of Humboldt University in Berlin. The presentation will explore the
questions these archived recordings raise today: the voices of captives, the methods of German
comparative musicologists, and the ways in which war functioned as an active force in the
dehumanization of music-making, archiving and research practices.

Speakers

Dr. Marija Dumnić Vilotijević

Senior Research Associate, Institute of Musicology SASA

Marija Dumnić Vilotijević holds MA and PhD in ethnomusicology from Faculty of Music of theUniversity of Arts in Belgrade. She is Senior Research Associate at Institute of Musicology of SerbianAcademy of Sciences and Arts. She specialized in similar institutions of Austrian and BulgarianAcademies... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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