Ivana Miladinović Prica, PhD
Ivana Miladinović Prica is Assistant Professor at the Department of Musicology of the Faculty of Music at the University of Arts in Belgrade. Her research explores musical modernism and experimentalism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, contemporary Serbian music, the work of John Cage, and the institutionalization of musical avant-garde in Yugoslavia within the context of the Cold War culture. She published two books, as well as numerous articles in collections of papers and journals, such as Contemporary Music Review, New Sound, AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, Treći program, Tacet, and Glissando. She also edited and co-edited several volumes and CD albums.
She studied musicology and completed her Ph.D. in Musicology at the Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade in 2018. During the 2024–25 academic year, she was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She has participated in research projects supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, and the Erasmus+ programme, including History and Identity of Female Artist in Serbian Modern Art – Creating a Source for Scientific and Artistic Transposition and Identities of Serbian Music in the World Cultural Context. She has presented papers at numerous musicological conferences in Europe and the United States (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Poland, Italy, Russia, Great Britain, Belgium, and Minnesota). She has also collaborated in several notable exhibitions: Freedom of Sound. John Cage behind the Iron Curtain (Ludwig Museum, Budapest), Music in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Historical Archives of Belgrade), and The Origins of Yugoslav Musical Minimalism (UK Parobrod).
She currently serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the New Sound International Journal of Music and Vice-President of the Musicological Society of Serbia. She was involved in the Interdisciplinary master studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade (2011–2024). Also, for several years she was an associate and a music critic at the Third Programme of Radio Belgrade (2006–2010). She has received the “Vlastimir Peričić” student award, and “Pavle Stefanović” award for music essays and criticism from the Composer’s Association of Serbia (2023). She is a member of the Serbian Composers’ Association, the International Musicological Society, and the American Musicological Society.