Talam Jasmina

Jasmina Talam completed undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD studies at the Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo. She completed Postodctoral research at Svenskt visarkiv, Stockholm, Sweden (2019). She is professor of Ethnomusicology and Head of the Institute for Musicology at the Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo.

Areas of research: musical instruments, history of folk music research and music anthropology, music and minorities, music and identity, multipart music, spiritual music

Courses: Ethnomusicology I-IX, Ethnomusicological research and fieldwork methodology I-VI,

Practicum of Ethnomusicological Subjects I-VIII, Methodology of ethnomusicological research, Academic writing, Music and identity (elective course)

Memberships

Full members of the International Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (since 2024)

Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur, Accademian/ corresponding member, (since 2022)

ICTM Executive Board Member (2021-2027)

Istraživački centar, Svenskt visarkiv (2018-2019)

Research Centre for European Multipart Music, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (since 2016)

Die Kommission zur Erforschung musikalischer Volkskulturen in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (since 2016)

CISAR – Center for Interdisciplinary Social Applied Research (since 2015)

ICTM – International Council for Traditional Music (since 2007, Liaison Officer for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2010.-2014., chair, ICTM Nacionalnog komiteta u Bosni i Hercegovini 2014.-2021.),

Muzikološko društvo FBiH (since 1998)

Savjet za nauku Kantona Sarajevo (since 2022)

Awards

2023: Award for special contribution in science, Univerzitet u Sarajevu

2020: Award for scientific achievement, Univerzitet u Sarajevu

2019: Award for scientific achievement, Univerzitet u Sarajevu

2019: Award for special contribution in science, Univerzitet u Sarajevu

2018: Scholarship for post-doctoral research, Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur, Sweden

2015: Best professor, Muzička akademija, Univerzitet u Sarajevu

2015: Award of the Ministry of Culture, Astrakhan, Rusia

Guest lectures

2023. Università degli Studi di Trento, Italija

2022. Fakultet muzičkih umetnosti, Univerzitet umetnosti, Beograd, Serbia

2021. Wydział Teologiczny University of Opole, Poland

2019. Conservatorio superior de música de Vigo, Spain

2017. for students and professors of the Friedrich Schiller Universität from Jena, Germany

2017. Guest professor, Muzička akademija, University of Crna Gora

2015. State music conservatory, Astrakhan, Rusia

2013. Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Department of Musicology, Istanbul, Turkiy

2010, 2013 Univerzitet umetnosti, Novi Sad, Serbia

2009 za studente i profesore, University of Boston, USA

2009 Muzička akademija, University of Zagreb, Croatia

2007- 2009 and 2011- 2014 Akademija za glasbo, Filozofska fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia

2008. for students and professors of the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University, USA

Research projects

2024-2025:

Children and youth music in Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina during the period 1945-1991. University of Sarajevo, Academy of Music in cooperation with University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.

2021-2022:

Strani i straživači i istraživačke prakse u Bosni i Hercegovini.

2019-2020:

Musical heritage of Montenegro – MusiH, Ministarstvo kulture Crne Gore.

2019-2020:

Challenges and perspectives of informatization, digitalization and dissemination of archival collections of Slovenian and Bosnian researchers - University of Sarajevo, Academy of Music in cooperation with the Slovenian academy of science and art.

2018-2019:

Vodič kroz narodnu muziku Bosne i Hercegovina.

2017-2018:

Individual memory - collective history: ethno/musicological research, documentation and presentation.

2014-2015:

Transformations of popular music after the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia: On 'feedbacks' between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia. University of Sarajevo, Academy of Music in cooperation with the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.

2014-2015:

The collection of Matija Murko (1912, 1913). Phonogrammarciv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences i Muzička akademija, UNSA.

2014-2015: Women as Carriers of Folk Music Practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2008-2009:

Perception of the Turks and of the East in folk music in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia: Ethnomusicological parallels. University of Sarajevo, Academy of Music in cooperation with University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.

Books

2022.

Stories about Music in Bosnia and Herzegovina: dedicated to Folke Rabe, koautori: Lana Šehović, Fatima Hadžić and Tamara Karača Beljak. Sarajevo/Stockholm: Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo and Svenskt visarkiv/Caprice Records, The Swedish Performing Arts Agency.

Fra Branko Marić, Narodna glazba Bosne i Hercegovine. Jasmina Talam and fra Ante Marić, ur. Mostar/Sarajevo: Hercegovačka franjevačka provincija i Muzička akademija UNSA,

2019.

Bosnians in Sweden – Music and Identity. Reports from the Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research 52. Stockholm: Svenskt Visarkiv.

2018.

Vodič kroz tradicionalnu narodnu muziku Bosne i Hercegovine, with Tamara Karača Beljak, Dragica Panić, Milorad Kenjalović. Sarajevo: ICTM Nacionalni komitet u BiH i Univerzitet u Sarajevu. Muzička akademija.

2017.

Pripovijedanje kroz pjesmu: narativni oblici u narodnoj muzičkoj tradiciji Bosne i Hercegovine. Sarajevo: Univerzitet u Sarajevu. Muzička akademija.

2014.

Narodni muzički instrumenti u Bosni i Hercegovini. Sarajevo: Univerzitet u Sarajevu. Muzička akademija.

2013.

Folk Musical Instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Edited books

2020

Muzičko nasljeđe Bosne i Hercegovine. Jasmina Talam, Tamara Karača Beljak, eds. ICTM Nacionalni komitet u Bosni i Hercegovini.

2016

Zbornik radova u čast 120-godišnjice rođenja prvog bosanskohercegovačkog etnomuzikologa fra dr. Branka Marića. Jasmina Talam, Tamara Karača Beljak, ur. Sarajevo/Mostar: Muzička akademija, Univerzitet u Sarajevu i Hercegovačka franjevačka provincija.

2015

Zbornik radova "Žene nositeljice narodne muzičke prakse u Bosni i Hercegovini. Jasmina Talam, Tamara Karača Beljak, ur. Sarajevo: Muzička akademija, Univerzitet u Sarajevu i ICTM Nacionalni komitet u Bosni i Hercegovini.

2014

The Collection of Papers Celebrating 110 years of the birth of the first Bosnian ethnochoreologist Jelena Dopuđa. Jasmina Talam, Tamara Karača Beljak, ur. Sarajevo: Muzička akademija, Univerzitet u Sarajevu i ICTM Nacionalni komitet u Bosni i Hercegovini.

Maqām: Historical Traces and Present Practice in South European Music Traditions. 8th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group Maqām. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Jürgen Elsner, Gisa Jähnichen, Jasmina Talam, eds.

2012

Collection of papers 7th International Symposium "Music in Society". Jasmina Talam, Fatima Hadžić and Refik Hodžić, eds. Sarajevo: Academy of Music and Musicological Society FB-H.

2008 Legat akademika Cvjetka Rihtmana. I dio / [Jasmina Talam, Tamara Karača-Beljak, eds.] Katalog. Sarajevo: Univerzitet u Sarajevu: Muzička akademija u Sarajevu: Institut za muzikologiju.

2008

Collection of Papers: 6th International Symposium "Music in Society". Jasmina Talam, ed. Sarajevo: Academy of Music and Musicological Society FB-H.

Articles in books and journals

2023

"The Role of the Musician in the Performance of Traditional Dances in Bosnia and Herzegovina". In: European Voices V. Diverging Ontologies in Music for Dancing. Ardian Ahmedaja, ed. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag/Brill Österreich GmbH. 97-116.

"Bosnian Traditional Multipart music in Sweden: Case Study of Ensemble Izvorni dar". In: Emotion and aesthetic experience during the performance act. Ardian Ahmedaja and Macchiarella Ignazio, ed. Musica Baltica. Riga: University of Cagliari and the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music.118-132.

"The Practice of Playing Zithres in Bosnian and Herzegovinian Coffeehouses from historial perspective". with Lana Šehović In: Musical Bows and Zithers Along the Great Silk Road. Xiao Mei and Gisa Jähnichen, eds. Berlin: Logos Verlag. 143-164. (poglavlje knjige)

2022

"Forgotten Treasure: Field Recordings from Bjelašnica in 1955". koautor Drago Kunej, Časopis za muzičku kulturu Muzika. XXVI/2. 7-46.

2021

"Tragom naučnih zvučnih snimaka: kolekcija 'Bosnienfahrt'". Muzičko nasljeđe Bosne i Hercegovine. T. Karača Beljak i J. Talam, ur. Sarajevo: ICTM Nacionalni komitet u Bosni i Hercegovini. 2021: 9-28.

"Traditional folk music in Bosnia and Herzegovina through historical sound recordings." In Musikethnologische Feldforschung: Historische und gegenwartsbezogene Perspektiven, eds. Klaus Näumann and Gisela Probst-Effah. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 299-315.

"Longing for the homeland: Sevdalinka in Sweden. In: Sounds of Migration: Music and migration in the Nordic countries. Owe Ronström & Dan Lundberg, eds. Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi CLXI. Uppsala/Stockholm: The Royal Gustav Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture. 83-100.

2020

"The importance of Matija Murko’s research for understanding the musical tradition of Bosnia and Herzegovina". koautori D. Kunej, I T. Karača Beljak. Traditiones 49/2: 31-52.

Talam, Jasmina. "Jozo Brašnić Jerkan, narodni pjevač uz debelu žicu violine". Zbornik radova predavača sa seminara folklora Hrvata u Bosni i Hercegovini. Mostar: UHAKUD BiH. 2020:143-149.

2019

"A short story about a great man: Contribution by Svanibor Pettan to the development of Ethnomusicology in Bosnia and Herzegovina". Muzikološki zbornik. 55/2:29-34.

"Jelena Dopuđa, prva bosanskohercegovačka etnokoreologinja". Zbornik radova "Bosanskohercegovačke naučnice i njihov istraživački rad". Edim Šator, ur. Mostar: Federalno ministarstvo obrazovanja i nauke. 565-580.

2018

"Razvoj bosanskohercegovačke etnomuzikologije u okviru Instituta za proučavanje folklora u Sarajevu". Zbornik radova "Naučna misao u BiH - Historijski razvoj do kraja 20. stoljeća". Damir Ravlić, ur. Mostar: Federalno ministarstvo obrazovanja i nauke. 631-648.

"Cultural engagement in applied ethnomusicology: Examples from Bosnia and Herzegovina a contribution to applied science". T. Karača-Beljak, J. Talam. The Collection of papers of the 10th International Symposium "Music in Society". Amra Bosnić, Naida Hukić, eds. Sarajevo: Muzička akademija i Muzikološko društvo FBiH. 246-255.

"Echoes of Forgotten Times: Professional Folk Musical Ensembles in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878-1918)". J. Talam, L. Paćuka. Muzikološki zbornik 54(1): 75-87.

"Voices from the Past: The Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage of the Institute of Musicology". J. Talam, T. Karača-Beljak. Ethnomusicology in the Audiovisual Time. Yu Hui. Leonardo D'Amico and Yves Defrance, eds. Zhejiang University Press. 174-190.

"Muzička tradicija Bosne i Hercegovine kroz istraživanja Matije Murke". Jasmina Talam, Tamara Karača Beljak. Forum Bosnae. 81-82: 314-328.

"Crnogorska narodna muzika u arhivi Instituta za muzikologiju Muzičke akademije u Sarajevu". Zbornik radova s Prve međunarodne konferencije Muzičko nasljeđe Crne Gore. Jelena Martinović-Bogojević i Tatjana Krkeljić, ur. Cetinje: Muzička akademija, Univerzitet Crne Gore. 49-63.

"Digitalna infrastruktura nematerijalne kulturne baštine u Bosni i Hercegovini". Muzika 21/2.

2017

"From Urban to Rural Tradition: The Violin in Musical Traditions of Bosnia and Herzegovina". Studia Insturmentorum Musicae Popularis V. New Series. 417-430.

"Matija Murko and his growing interest in South Slavic epics". The Complete Historical Collections 1899–1950. Series 16: The collection of Matija Murko (1912, 1913). Phonogrammarciv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 15-22.

2016

"Tragom zaboravljenog etnomuzikologa: fra Branko Marić". Zbornik radova "Hercegovački naučnici/znanstvenici i tradicija istraživanja u Hercegovini". Šaban Zahirović, ur. Mostar: Federalno ministarstvo obrazovanja i nauke. 269-286.

"Fra Branko Marić, začetnik bosanskohercegovačke etnomuzikologije". Zbornik radova u čast 120-godišnjice rođenja prvog bosanskohercegovačkog etnomuzikologa fra dr. Branka Marića. Jasmina Talam, Tamara Karača Beljak, ur. Muzička akademija, Univerzitet u Sarajevu i Hercegovačka franjevačka provincija. 21-39.

"Historijski snimci kao nematerijalna kulturna baština i istraživački resursi". Jasmina Talam, Tamara Karača Beljak. Zbornik radova Međunarodnog simpozija Između teorije i prakse. Novi Sad: Akademija umetnosti. 66-77.

"Matija Murko and his research in Bosnia and Herzegovina". J. Talam, Tamara Karača Beljak. Collection of papers 9th International Symposium "Music in Society". Academy of Music and Musicological Society FB-H. 505-518.

2015

"Creation, Transmission and Performance: Guslars in Bosnia and Herzegovina". Muzikološki zbornik 51/2:203-221.

"Pripovijedanje kroz pjesmu kao dio ženskog muzičkog izraza u Bosni i Hercegovini" Zbornik radova "Žene nositeljice narodne muzičke prakse u Bosni i Hercegovini. Jasmina Talam, Tamara Karača Beljak, ur. Muzička akademija, Univerzitet u Sarajevu i ICTM Nacionalni komitet BiH. 34-49.

2014

"Propitivanje etnomuzikoloških konteksta u Bosni i Hercegovini kroz djelatnost folkloristikinja Mire Fulanović Šošić, Dunje Rihtman-Šotrić, Jasne Spajić i Ankice Petrović". J. Talam, T. Karača-Beljak. Zbornik radova u čast 110-godišnjice rođenja prve bosanskohercegovačke etnokoreologinje Jelene Dopuđe. Jasmina Talam, Tamara Karača Beljak, ur. Muzička akademija u Sarajevu, ICTM Nacionalni komitet BiH. 240-249.

"From Traditional to Modern: Ilahy in Bosnia and Hercegovina". Maqām: Historical Traces and Present Practice in South European Music Traditions. Jürgen Elsner, Gisa Jähnichen and Jasmina Talam, eds. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 204-212.

2013

"Traditional Instrumentalists: Experiences in Bosnia and Herzegovina". 19. Meeting ICTM Study Group Folk Musical Instruments. Studia Insturmentorum Musicae Popularis III. New Series. 339-348.

2012

"Bosna Hersek’teki şehir mȕziǧi geleneǧi: sevdalinka ve saz". J. Talam, T. Karača-Beljak. Porte akademik. Journal of Music and Dance Studies. 2. Special Issue on Organology. 85-93.

2011

"Examples of an interesting practice: Singing by the pan". 18. Meeting ICTM Study Group Folk Musical Instruments. Studia Insturmentorum Musicae Popularis II. New Series. 251-255.

"Ethnomusicological Research and Fieldwork Methodology – Expirience in Bosnia and Herzegovina". J. Talam, T. Karača-Beljak. In: Approaches to Music Research: between Practice and Epistemiology. Methodolody of Music Research. Vol. 6. L. Stefanija, N. Schüler, eds. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 97-102.

2010

"Zaštita nematerijalne kulturne baštine: muzička tradicija Bosne i Hercegovine". J.Talam, T. Karača Beljak. Muzika 35/36. 64-69.

"New Bosnian Ethnomusicology: Perspectives and Challenges". J.Talam, T. Karača Beljak. 2nd meeting ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in south-eastern Europe. Izmir: Ege University's State Turkish Music Conservatory. 217-221.

"Mehterhane and their influence on the Bosnian folk music". In: Militärmusik zwischen nutzen und missbrauch. Manfred Heidler, ed. Militärmusikdienst der Bundeswehr. Bonn. 9-16.

"Revitalisation of the legacy of Cvjetko Rihtman. Ongoing ethnomusicological research at the Academy of Music in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina". with Tamara Karača-Beljak. In: Researching conservatoires enquiry, innovation and the development of artistic practice in higher music education. Pocketbook. Helena Gaunt, ed. Polifonia research working group. AEC Publication. 77.

"Historijski izvori i istraživanja muzičkih instrumenata u Bosni i Hercegovini". Gračanički glasnik. 30: 48-57.

2009

"Tambura sa dvije žice u narodnoj muzičkoj tradiciji Bosne i Hercegovine". Gračanički glasnik. 29: 39-50.

"Drums in Bosnia and Herzegovina". 17. Meeting ICTM Study Group Folk Musical Instruments. Studia Insturmentorum Musicae Popularis. I. New Series. 279-288.

"Ottoman Influence on Folk Music Tradicion of Bosnia and Herzegovina". J.Talam i T. Karača-Beljak. Muzikološki zbornik. XLV/1. Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta. 117-127.

2008

"Echoes of a forgotten time – BH folk music practice". J. Talam, T. Karača Beljak. In: Collection of papers 6th International Symposium "Music in Society". Academy of Music and Musicological Society FB-H. 184-195.

"Novi izazovi – digitalizacija snimaka iz legata C. Rihtmana I". with T. Karača Beljak. Muzika XII/2 (32).25-28.

2007

"Bosanska bugarija". In: Narodna umjetnost. 44/2. Zagreb: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku. 185-205.

"Institute for Musicology of the Academy of Music in Sarajevo". In: Research of Dance and Music on the Balkans. IMS. 198-203.

2005

"Uspavanke u narodnoj muzičkoj tradiciji Zenice i okoline". Zbornik radova Pedagoškog fakulteta u Zenici. 3:341-346.

Multimedial editions

2021.

Serija 4: Crnogorska narodna muzika – terenski snimci Instituta za muzikologiju Muzičke akademije Univerziteta u Sarajevu. 3 CD-a i knjižica. Cetinje/Sarajevo: Muzička akademija Univerziteta Crne Gore i Muzička akademija Univerziteta u Sarajevu.

2018.

Traditional folk music of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Series 3: Singing to gusle accompaniment. CD. Issued by: Institute for Musicology, Academy of Music.

2016.

Traditional folk music of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Series 1: Saz in Bosnia. CD. Issued by: ICTM Nacionalni komitet u Bosni i Hercegovini/ ICTM National Committee in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2015.

Žene nositeljice narodne muzičke prakse Bosne i Hercegovine/Women as bearers of folk music practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina, (co-editor). Issued by: Muzička akademija Univerziteta u Sarajevu, ICTM Nacionalni komitet Bosne i Hercegovine.

Lexicon articles

2014 Bosnia and Herzegovina: Contemporary performance practice. SAGE Encyclopedia of Ethnomusicology.

2014 Bojan Bujić. Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press.

2014 Branimir Marijić. Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press.

2014 Bosnia and Herzegovina: Traditional music. Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press.

2013 Dervečanske/izvorne songs. "European genres" New volume of the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Paolo Prato, quest editor.

Organization of confereces and symposia

2021: 11th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities, member of Program Committee

2019: 6th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group for Multipart Music, member of Program Committee

2019: Druga Međunarodna konferencija ”Muzičko nasljeđe Crne Gore – muzičke prakse i njihovi potencijali (MusiH)”, member of Program Committee

2018: 11th International Symposium "Music in Society", member of Program Committee.

2018: Naučni skup Muzičko nasljeđe Bosne i Hercegovine u povodu pet godina od osnivanja ICTM Nacionalnog komiteta u Bosni i Hercegovini i 20. godina od osnivanja Muzikološkog društva FBiH, članica Programskog odbora

2017: 21st symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Musical Instruments, member of Program Committee, member of Program Committee

2017: Prva Međunarodna konferencija ”Muzičko nasljeđe Crne Gore", članica Programskog odbora

2016: 10th International Symposium "Music in Society", member of Program Committee.

2015: 13th International Students’ Conference "Border Crossings", member of Program Committee, member of Program Committee

2014: 9th International Symposium "Music in Society", member of Program Committee.

2013: Obilježavanje značajnih jubileja bosanskohercegovačke muzikologije i etnomuzikologije, članica Programskog odbora.

2012: 8th Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Maqām, member of Program Committee.

2012: Sevdalinka - link između koncepcije i percepcije, članica Programskog odbora.

2012: 8th International Symposium "Music in Society", member of Program Committee.

2010: 7th International Symposium "Music in Society", member of Program Committee.

2010: Nematerijalno kulturno naslijeđe, članica Programskog odbora.

Reviewer of scientific articles and books

- journal Arti Musices, Hrvatsko muzikološko društvo

- Folia Organologica. International Yearbook of organ and organ music, Department of Musicology of the University of Opole and the Diocesan Institute of Church Music in Opole,

- journal Folklore, Estonian Folklore Archives

- Journal Musik, Academy of Music and Musicological Society FB-H

- Muzikološki zbornik, University of Ljubljana

- Nätverket, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University.

- multimedial edition Ganga

- S izvora glas, Jure Miloša

- book Uvod u etnomuzikologiju/ Etnomuzikološka čitanka Bosne i Hercegovine za studente Odsjeka za muzičku teoriju i pedagogiju, autorice dr. Tamare Karača Beljak

- book Zvučni krajolici-osvrt na vokalne stilove Bosne i Hercegovine, autorice dr. Tamare Karače Beljak

- book Busovačo, lijepa si k'o ruža, Ivana Križanovića

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