SOCIAL SENSE AND EFFECT OF MUSIC: PREVAILING IDEOLOGY IN MUSIC CURRICULA IN CROATIA BEFORE AND AFTER ITS INDEPENDENCE

Focusing on the presence of prevailing ideology in the music curricula and music promoted by the media in the periods prior to and after Croatian independence, the book analyzes socio-political aspects in music. The key issue is reflection of the changing ideological priorities and socio-economic context on the musical values of the socialist and democratic Croatia. A view of ideology in connection with music is presented on two levels: one is the change in the content and orientation of the music curriculum after Croatian independence, and the other is formation of Croatian music identity as an ideological category. The shift of ideology is traced from the period when the role of music was to help support communist ideology and multinational unification of the former Yugoslavia, to the recent revival of national rhetoric and the process of re- traditionalization and de-secularization in independent Croatia. Repercussions of such ideological shift are clearly manifested in the changes of the educational concepts and the content of the music curriculum, as well as in the types of music promoted and broadcasted by media.