Open AccessFrom great expectations to great disappointments: Petar Krstic’s contribution to the process of reforms of music education in interwar Yugoslavia (1918-1921)
Author(s) -
Ivana Vesić
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
muzikologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0976
pISSN - 1450-9814
DOI - 10.2298/muz1927253v
Subject(s) - serbian , negotiation , constitution , music education , political science , law , classics , history , sociology , pedagogy , philosophy , linguistics
This paper deals with the activities of Petar Krstic in the domain of music education in the first years after the First World War and the constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. As a long-serving director of the Serbian Music School, Krstic initiated various processes in order to modernize it and transform it into institution of higher level of music education. For that purpose he focused on the school?s internal reorganization and ?etatization?. As a result, Krstic prepared new school regulations and several draft s of legal texts and started negotiations with the authorities. Krstic?s ideas, plans and his undertakings concerning the reforms during the rule over the Serbian Music School/Music School in Belgrade will be discussed in detail together with their historical value.