Zlata Marjanovic

Zlata Marjanovic, ethnomusicologist, was born in Belgrade in 1966. She graduated in 1990 (The role of music in the traditional rituals of the village Brza), got her M. Sc. in 1997. (Vocal Music Tradition of Boka Kotorska) and got a PhD in 2013 (Folk Music of Boka Kotorska and Montenegrin Hinterland) at the Department of Ethnomusicology, Faculty of Music in Belgrade (Serbia), under the mentorship of PhD Dimitrije O. Golemović. She was declared as a best student for the 1990. Since 1998. she has been working as ethnomusikologist in Folk Dance and Dance Ensemble of Serbia Kolo. Since 2005. she has been working as a professor of ethnomusicology, traditional singing, traditional music and folk ensembles at the Department for Traditional Music at the High Music School Stevan Mokranjac in Kraljevo, recording numerous successful performances in the country and abroad (Slovenia, Slovakia, Norway, etc.). Since 2018 she working as an assistant professor at the Department for Ethnomusicology at the Academy of Arts, University of Banja Luka. She studied the problems of vocal, vocal-instrumental and instrumental tradition in Montenegro (Boka Kotorska, the coast with the Hinterland, Cetinje and its surroundings) and Serbia (eastern, southeastern and northwestern Serbia, southeastern Kosovo). The areas of Zlata interest are: historical sources in ethnomusicology, changes in traditional music from the relation between archaic and modern and applied ethnomusicology, especially on the case of Boka Kotorska, Montenegrin coast and continental parts of Montenegro. She is the author of four books and a co-author of two, and her over forty scientific and professional papers have been published in journals, proceedings and monographs in Serbia, Montenegro, Republic Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Lithuania and Austria. She is a member of the Serbian Ethnomusicology Society, the professional jury of the International Klapa Festival in Perast in Montenegro since 2011, she is also the member of The International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), within which she acts as a contact person (Liaison Officer) for Montenegro and participated numerous scientific conferences, round tables, workshops, events and project about music tradition.