Svanibor Hubert Pettan - Biography#

Svanibor Pettan is Professor in Ethnomusicology and Chair of the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His academic degrees are from the Universities of Zagreb, Croatia (BA), Ljubljana, Slovenia (MA), and Maryland, USA (Ph.D.), while his fieldwork sites include former Yugoslav lands, Australia, Egypt, Norway, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and USA. His principal research topics are music and politics on a war-peace continuum, multiculturalism, minorities, gender, and applied ethnomusicology. He was the first Yugoslav ethnomusicologist who conducted research for academic degrees outside of Europe (Zanzibar in 1982, Egypt in 1986 - 1987). He was a a visiting professor at a number of foreign universities (Illinois, Maribor, Oslo, Pula, Split, Tainan, Washington, Zagreb, Berkeley), he received several research scholarships (Brown, Chicago, Griffith, Wesleyan) and he is particularly active in the International Council for Traditional Music - as initiator and chair of the study group on applied ethnomusicology (est. in 2007), vice-chair of the study group on muic and minorities (est. in 1997), member of the executive board (2001 - 2009), vice-president (2009 - 2011), secretary general (2011 - 2021) and president (2021 - 2025).

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