Institute of Ethnomusicology

Contact info

Glasbenonarodopisni institut
http://gni.zrc-sazu.si/
gni@zrc.sazu.si
Novi trg 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone	386 (0) 1 470 6265
Fax	386 (0) 1 425 7753
Region	SI-1
Managed by	Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts
Marjetka Golež Kaučič, Head
Marjetka.Golez-Kaucic@zrc-sazu.si
Phone	386 (0) 1 470 6266
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EU funded projects (Culture, MEDIA)

• Preservation and On-line Fruition of the Audio Documents from the European Archives of Ethnic Music, 2005
  Project summary

Events abroad

Past Events

• 14 November 2016
  Historical Sound Recording of Traditional Slovenian Music and the Development of Polka in America, a lecture by Drago Kunej (Institute of Ethnomusicology), supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Washington, at Music and Dance Library – Ohio State University in Columbus, USA
  programme

The Institute of Ethnomusicology (GNI) is the oldest institute within the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. Founded in 1934, initially as the Folklore Institute, it was affiliated with SAZU in 1972 as a section of the Institute of Slovene Ethnology‎. Since 1994, the year the Sound Archive was founded, GNI has been an autonomous institute of ZRC SAZU, comprising a Department of Ethnomusicology, a Department of Textology, a Department of Ethnochoreology and a Sound Archive and Studio.

Activities

The Institute incorporates a Sound Archive and Studio which houses extensive recordings of the folk music of Slovenia, other South Slavic nations and other European and non-European nations.

The Institute publishes scientific journals, monographs, audio, and video editions. The recent audio publication Pesem slovenske dežele [Songs of Slovenia] includes twenty-four folk songs from the Slovenian countryside. The accompanying text of the audio collection has been translated in English.

International cooperation

The foreign archives most important for GNI's work are the Phonogrammarchiv of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Institut für Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie, and the Österreichische Volksliedwerk, all in Vienna, the Slowenisches Volkskundeinstitut Urban Jarnik/Slovenski narodopisni inštitut Urban Jarnik in Klagenfurt, the Magyar Tudományos Akademia in Budapest, and the Golda Meir Library in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA).

See also

• Institute of Ethnomusicology Sound Archive and Studio
• Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts
• Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) Library
• Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU)

External links

• Institute of Ethnomusicology website
• Institute of Ethnomusicology publications