On music and art in the journal Danica (1860-1872)

This paper deals with features and articles on music and art published in the journal Danica, in the period 1860-1872. Selected articles contain significant testimonies on the place of musical practice in the everyday life of Serbs and other Slavic people living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the nineteenth century. The feature articles abound with details on the artistic activities of respected individuals and singing societies, popular cultural-artistic events (besedas, balls, dances), new publications on music and other news. Several articles were dedicated to aesthetic and philosophical views on art. In a separate section of this paper, I analyze the narrative style of these articles. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. ON 177004: Serbian Musical Identities within Local and Global Frameworks: Traditions, Changes, Challenges]