Conference paper
"KAJ" – A FACTOR IN CROATIAN MUSICAL JOURNALISM
Andrija Tomašek
; Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
During 40 years of KAJ's publication, a hundred and ten writings from the musical theme field have been published. More than seventy authors have written them, printed on seven hundred and some sixty pages, and this would be sufficient for one thick volume or two average ones. The papers are from two to some twenty pages long. The number of articles in respect to the number of writers points to the fact that some writers had participated more than once, whereas the contents show that they had been written by experts with different special qualifications, although due to circumstances they had written about the same or very similar theme fields. The contributions are on subject matter with regional provenance, and this is in conformity with the aim and content directionality of the periodical. The written matter in the contributions covers lives of musicians, descriptions of musical events, the role and function of music in secular and religious festivities and occasions, in private and public lives of individuals and social groups, there is data put forth on folk music, musical instruments, music archives, on the music pieces by domestic and foreign authors that had been performed, in brief – the papers are on all the subjects that had influenced the Kajkavian dialect area culture.
The directionalities of the individual contributions may be gathered from the paper titles listed at the end of the overview at the end of the thematic bibliographical addendum.
Keywords
music themes in the KAJ periodical; musical culture in the Kajkavian colloquial area
Hrčak ID:
70433
URI
Publication date:
5.7.2009.
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