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https://doi.org/10.56954/bg.17.1.2
Fragments of correspondence – a nuanced look at the professional work of Nikola Buble
Vito Balić
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The scope of this presentation is given by the selection from personal correspondence made by Nikola Buble himself at the beginning of the summer of 2015. Among the 165 units written over a period of four decades, one first notices various forms (letters, memos, telegrams, postcards, e-mails) and contents (thematically elaborated, collaborative, informative, presentations, requests, short answers, notices and greetings), but also its incompleteness. The correspondence includes 73 persons, of whom the most represented are musicians and scholars from the field of (ethno)musicology. Although a letter has significantly lost its role in the age of telecommunications, it has retained its importance in two essential segments of communication: when we want to accurately convey certain information and when we want to give the corresponding partner time to process it or to consider it, which is also evident in this case. Buble’s selection of correspondence encompasses the period from 1975 to 2015. Although in it we find only fragments of artistic, scientific and organizational musical activity the main guiding thread of Buble’s work can be distinguished: the observation of every music and musical activity within the entire musical culture.
The paper explains the methodological approach to correspondence processing, and reviews its contents according to Buble’s professional and institutional activities that relate to his ethnomusicological work: conducting vocal ensembles (klapa), participating in various aspects of the musical life of Trogir, managing and cooperating in the Omiš Festival of Dalmatian klapa singing, editing the ethnomusicological journal Bašćinski glasi, working at the Academy of Arts in Split and in its administration and participating in the National Science Council. The paper contains a list of selected correspondence and a transcript of 11 selected letters from correspondence with Lovro Županović, Dinko Fio, Jerko Bezić and Silvije Bombardelli.
Buble’s belief that the efforts of ethnomusicologists can »usefully contribute to solving and then improving the musical culture of a certain micro-region as well as of a wider social community« best describes the role that his work has had in the area of his native Trogir and southern Croatia, and we find confirmation of this in his correspondence.
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286807
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Datum izdavanja:
8.12.2022.
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