Open AccessSvanibor Pettan: an Appreciation
Author(s) -
Jeff Todd Titon
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
muzikološki zbornik/muzikološki zbornik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.108
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2350-4242
pISSN - 0580-373X
DOI - 10.4312/mz.55.2.23-28
Subject(s) - ethnomusicology , scholarship , intervention (counseling) , ethnic group , aesthetics , service (business) , field (mathematics) , sociology , media studies , history , political science , visual arts , art , musical , psychology , law , anthropology , economy , mathematics , psychiatry , pure mathematics , economics
Svanibor Pettan is that rare kind of gentleman who immediately puts his acquaintances at ease and encourages them to feel as if they'd known him for a long time. These qualities have enabled him to succeed in helping to make the world a better place through music, and in helping his colleagues in Europe and abroad to mobilize around the field of applied ethnomusicology. For Svanibor, this has meant taking ethnomusicology beyond mere scholarship – that is, beyond the accumulation of knowledge and its dissemination within the community of scholars – to the application of that ethnomusicological knowledge in service to a deliberate intervention into the ethnic groups under study, to resolve conflicts that may lead to violence and instead to promote peace among them.