Sanja Radinović, PhD
She has been employed at Department for Ethnomusicology of FoM in Belgrade since 1989, as a docent since 2007. There she accomplished her bachelor, master and doctoral degrees under the mentorship of professor PhD Dragoslav Dević.
She defended her doctoral thesis in 2007 and published it in 2011, under the title Оblik i reč [Form and Word]. In 2012 the book got prestigious “Mile Nedeljković“ Award, as the best study in the field of contemporary Serbian folkloristics published in 2011.
She is the author of some sixty works, presented in symposiums in country and abroad and published in the collections of works from scientific meetings and in domestic and foreign scientific journals alike, such as Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae – an International Journal of Musicology (Budapest), Makedonski folklor (Skoplje), New Sound (Belgrade), Musicologia (Belgrade), Zbornik Matice srpske za scenske umetnosti i muziku (Novi Sad), Glasnik Etnografskog muzeja (Belgrade), Muzički talas (Belgrade), and others. Her works are devoted primarily to the Serbian vocal heritage, mostly to morphological characteristics of Serbian folk songs, analytical methodology, old Serbian two-part singing and the forms of old ritual layer. She also deals with the issues of rhythm, the history of Serbian ethnomusicology, sevdalinka and the spiritual music of various traditions.
So far, she has been the mentor for bachelor and master degrees to 13 students. Dozen seminar works of her students have been published in various Serbian scientific journals and conference proceedings. She established the practice of transcription and analysis of Serbian vocal forms, in which she was engaged for many years in her work with numerous generations of students of bachelor studies at the Department of Ethnomusicology at the FoM. She has also worked as a part time lecturer in academic institutions in Priština/Varvarin, Kragujevac and Istočno Sarajevo.