Karača Beljak Tamara

Dr Tamara Karača Beljak, ethnomusicologist, radio and television editor, music writer, music pedagogist.

She worked of Radio Sarajevo as an assitent and chief editor, creating shows in the area of traditional and art music (1986-2001). As the music editor of TV Sarajevo and TV She was an assistant on the Music Academy in Sarajevo (2000), senior assistant (2004), assistant professor (2008), associate professor (2014) and professor (2019) on the Department for musicology and ethnomusicology.

Activities in the domain of Music Academy and beyond are: with the National Museum she created the first systematic exhibition of traditional instruments (2005), in association with FTV BiH she started a series Putokazi tradicije (2004-2008), in association with Music production BHRT she set in motion and edited a number of audio publications of archived recordings of sevdalinkas (2005-2007), she was the head of the Department for ethnomusicology, and the Institute for musicology, and she also worked as Vice Dean for the Music Academy in Sarajevo (2016-2019), she worked with a record label Gramofon in Sarajevo (2014), and she was also the head editor of the magazine Muzika (2008-2014), she is a secretary of ICTM National committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina, member of the Board of Directors of the Musicological Society FBiH (2009-2014), she set in motion the activity of a student ensemble for traditional music, Etnoakademik, in the Music Academy in Sarajevo (2001). She published scientific and professional papers, reviews and articles in magazines, annuals, and special publications in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, China, Slovenija, Serbia, Turkey, Great Britain and the USA. She published four books under the Institute for musicology of the Music Academy of the University in Sarajevo (2008, 2014, 2019), ICTM National committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2019). She is an editor of twenty audio publications that were released by MP BHRT, Musicological society FBiH, Institute for musicology od the Music Academy of the University of Sarajevo and ICTM National Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She wrote encyclopaedia articles for prestigious publishers (SAGE, Oxford University Press). She participated in a number of scientific and professional meetings under ICTM organization, prestigious academic musical institutions (Austria, Slovenia, Turkey). She was a member of numerous local and international scientific and professional projects. In April 2018, at the invitation of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sports, Tamara Karača Beljak was hired as an expert for the preparation of the appropriate documentation for the nomination of Svedalinka to the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.Since October 2020, she has been the vice-rector for art, artistic research, culture and sport at the University of Sarajevo.

Publications

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.

2019. Uvod u etnomuzikologiju – Etnomuzikološka čitanka Bosne i Hercegovine za studente Muzičke teorije i pedagogije. Institut za muzikologiju. Muzička akademija u Sarajevu.

2019. Vodič kroz tradicionalnu narodnu muziku Bosne i Hercegovine, koautori Tamara Karača Beljak, Dragica Panić, Milorad Kenjalović. ICTM Nacionalni komitet u BiH i Univerzitet u Sarajevu. Muzička akademija.

2014. Zvučni krajolici- pogled na vokalne fenomene Bosne i Hercegovine, Institut za muzikologiju. Muzička akademija u Sarajevu.

2008. Legat akademika Cvjetka Rihtmana, I dio, Institut za muzikologiju. Muzička akademija u Sarajevu. (co-author)

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GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AnKRyy8AAAAJ&hl=en

Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2599-1643