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Socio-political discourses
of the development of music education
in Bosnia and Herzegovina before
and between the two world wars
Lana Šehović-Paćuka
Univerza v Sarajevu
University of Sarajevo
Historical Context: Forerunners of Institutional Music
Education
Professional music education framed in institutional forms had a thorny
path of development in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was a result of com-
plex socio-political circumstances. Indeed, the first official data on nour-
ishing music teaching in BiH date back to the period of Austro-Hungarian
administration, when the Western European practice that arrived with the
Monarchy officials became part of the socio-cultural daily life – previously
unknown to the broader circles of Bosnian and Herzegovinian population.1
However, the first unofficial data on practicing and consuming the pro-
European oriented musical practice date back as early as to the Ottoman
period – and are related to narrow diplomatic circles, gatherings of beys
and consuls to which local population did not have access. Thus, these were
sporadic phenomena and by no means a well-established practice at a for-
mal socio-cultural level. Therefore, data available to the history of music in
BiH to date are scarce, and one of the first proofs of informal music teach-
ing is related to the name of Anna Simonis – wife of Ottoman army leader
Omer Pasha Latas, who converted to Islam after her marriage and took the
1 Lana Paćuka, “Muzički život u Sarajevu u periodu Austro-Ugarske uprave (1878–
1918)” (PhD diss., University of Sarajevo, 2014), 215.
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Socio-political discourses
of the development of music education
in Bosnia and Herzegovina before
and between the two world wars
Lana Šehović-Paćuka
Univerza v Sarajevu
University of Sarajevo
Historical Context: Forerunners of Institutional Music
Education
Professional music education framed in institutional forms had a thorny
path of development in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was a result of com-
plex socio-political circumstances. Indeed, the first official data on nour-
ishing music teaching in BiH date back to the period of Austro-Hungarian
administration, when the Western European practice that arrived with the
Monarchy officials became part of the socio-cultural daily life – previously
unknown to the broader circles of Bosnian and Herzegovinian population.1
However, the first unofficial data on practicing and consuming the pro-
European oriented musical practice date back as early as to the Ottoman
period – and are related to narrow diplomatic circles, gatherings of beys
and consuls to which local population did not have access. Thus, these were
sporadic phenomena and by no means a well-established practice at a for-
mal socio-cultural level. Therefore, data available to the history of music in
BiH to date are scarce, and one of the first proofs of informal music teach-
ing is related to the name of Anna Simonis – wife of Ottoman army leader
Omer Pasha Latas, who converted to Islam after her marriage and took the
1 Lana Paćuka, “Muzički život u Sarajevu u periodu Austro-Ugarske uprave (1878–
1918)” (PhD diss., University of Sarajevo, 2014), 215.
369
