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 18th International Meeting
StubickeToplice
Croatia
13-17 April, 2011
at the
invitation of
Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
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Kovač Marina, Čengić Amila, Toska Amra,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
nicef@neobee.net
Bosnian instrumental rural practice: Soundscape of Rama
Archive of the Institute of Musicology, at Sarajevo Music Academy, holds the Legacy of Cvjetko Rihtman, database of recordings registered during the
period of forty years of undertaken researches. Founder of the Sarajevo Music Academy and its long-time professor, Cvjetko Rihtman, started his
fieldwork in 1947 and systematically conducted it until 1974. Rihtman's fieldworks involved both rural and urban music of all three constitutional
populations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and music of smaller ethnical groups.
During the period of 1956/57, Cvjetko Rihtman and his research team were based in Rama, area located in northern Herzegovina. There they registered
many valuable recordings which testify of the local folk musical practice. Occupied with comprehensive Rihtman’s legacy, students of the Department
of Musicology and Ethnomusicology paused on mentioned notes with the intention of devoting to them more thoroughly. In November 2008, crew
consisted of few students led by Professor Jasmina Talam, following the program of the Ethnomusicological Research and Fieldwork course, went to
Rama wanting to record current happenings in local musical practice, on the base of what Rihtman had left as an inheritance with his own fieldwork
recordings.
New fieldwork in the Rama area has brought exceptional results, especially considering musical instruments, and gave a new insight into tradition
nourished by local people. Due to its truly valuable material, we decided that part of our research should be presented to a broader ethnomusicological
community.
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