Pedagogical Work of Vesna Mikić

Adriana Sabo

Adriana Sabo Junior Researcher, PhD Candidate, Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade

Keywords: Vesna Mikić, musicology, Faculty of Music, education, music history, popular music, electroacoustic music

Abstract

This paper focuses on the teaching work of Vesna Mikić, PhD (1967–2019), full professor at the Department of Musicology of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. Considering that she was tied to this institution throughout most of her professional career, the paper will offer an outlook on the curricula of the subjects which she taught over the years, and an attempt to shed light on her approach to teaching and to the subject matter she taught. In addition, the paper will focus on her work as a mentor, and attempt to pinpoint a number of aspects that connected her work as a scholar, pedagogue and mentor.

Author Biography

Adriana Sabo, Junior Researcher, PhD Candidate, Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade

Adriana Sabo is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and a Junior Researcher at the same department, with a master’s degree in musicology (2012) and in gender studies (2015). She is the recipient of a scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Cultural Development of the Republic of Serbia, a member of the Serbian Musicological Society, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, The International Council for Traditional Music (Study group on Music, Gender, and Sexuality), and a contributor to the Center for Popular Music Research (Belgrade). Her research mainly concerns issues of gender and music, popular music, Otherness and the connections between music and politics.