Tijana Popović Mladjenović, PhD
Tijana Popović Mladjenović is Professor of Musicology at the Department of Musicology of the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade. She is a member of the European Academy of Sciences – Academia Europaea (Musicology and Art History Section) based in London, the Steering Committee of the International Musicological Societyʼs Regional Association for the Study of Music of the Balkans, as well as the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.
She earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees at the Musicology Department of the Faculty of Music at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She pursued further education in contemporary French music at Université Paris IV – Sorbonne, as well as during her study residencies in Boston and Cambridge – at Boston University, MIT and Harvard University – as well as in Oxford, at the University of Oxford (New College, Magdalen College, Music Faculty).
As a visiting professor, she has taught at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Lithuanian Academy for Music and Theatre in Vilnius, Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University in Ljubljana, Academy of Music at the University of Sarajevo, Music Academy at the University of Montenegro, as well as the Academy of Arts at the University in Novi Sad and the Faculty of Philology and Arts at the University in Kragujevac. She is also a professor at the Interdisciplinary doctoral studies in Theory of Arts and Media at the University of Arts in Belgrade.
Her fields of scholarly interest include music of the fin de siècle period, 20th- and 21st-century poetics of music, aesthetics and philosophy of music, issues pertaining to musical thinking and musical time, as well as music’s relationship with other arts.
She has authored six scholarly monographs: Muzičko pismo (Musical Writing), Clio, 1996 [second edition: Faculty of Music (Tempus project InMusWB), 2015]; E lucevan le stelle (Milprom, 1997); Клод Дебиси и његово доба (Claude Debussy and His Age, Музичка омладина Србије, 2008); Procesi panstilističkog muzičkog mišljenja (The Processes of Pan-stylistic Musical Thinking, Fakultet muzičke umetnosti, 2009); Interdisciplinary Approach to Music: Listening, Performing, Composing (as the primary author; co-authored with Blanka Bogunović and Ivana Perković; Faculty of Music, Tempus project InMusWB, 2014); as well as The Musical Text and the Ontology of the Musical Work (in: Musical Identities and European Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. by Ivana Perković & Franco Fabbri, Peter Lang, 2017).
A large number of her scholarly studies, articles, and essays (more than one hundred and sixty) have been published by leading national and international scholarly journals (e.g. the New Sound; Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies; Acta Semiotica Fennica; Musicological Annual; Kakanien Revisited; Music; (Ethno)musicological Yearbook of Southern Croatia; Music in Society; Соврменные проблемы музыкознания/Contemporary Musicology; Contemporary Music Review; IMS-RASMB Series Musicologica Balcanica; Трета програма; Матица српска за сценске уметности и музику; Звук; Мокрањац; Музички талас; Теорија и пракса, etc.) and collective scholarly monographs (published by, for example, Taylor & Francis/Routledge; Springer; Peter Lang; Faculty of Music/University of Arts in Belgrade; Clio; Umweb Publications; Oxford University Press; Presses universitaires de Louvain; Bärenreiter; CESEM/ Universidade Nova de Lisboa; University of Sheffield Press; Musica Iagellonica, etc.) in Serbian, English, French, and German. She is also the editor and co-editor of more than thirty collective and individual scholarly monographs.