Dalibor Davidović
Dalibor Davidović (born 3 January 1972 in Našice) is a Croatian musicologist and university professor.
Davidović studied musicology at the Zagreb Music Academy (B.A. and M.A.) and obtained his PhD from the University of Hamburg.
His principal areas of research are systematic musicology and aesthetics of music. He published extensively on the epistemological problems of the music studies. In his book Identity and Music: Between Criticism and Technique he explores the contemporary music scholarship concerned with identity politics. His recent research has been focused on the aesthetic problem of listening, on the notion of anarchy in the work of John Cage and on the music ontology of Jewish philosopher Ivan Focht. He is currently researching the work of German film director Hans-Jürgen Syberberg.
He teaches at the Department of Musicology at the Music Academy in Zagreb. He translated into Croatian books on aesthetics and on philosophy of religion.
Books
- Istraživanja recepcije u muzikologiji i njihovi izgledi (Reception Research in Musicology and its Prospects), Zagreb: Hrvatsko muzikološko društvo, 2002, ISBN 953-6090-19-8
- Identität und Musik: Zwischen Kritik und Technik (Identity and Music: Between Criticism and Technique), Vienna: Mille Tre, 2006, ISBN 3-900198-09-8
Editorial work
- (ed. Raul Knežević, assist. Dalibor Davidović): ACEZANTEZ, Zagreb: MIC, 1999, ISBN 953-96779-4-7
- (ed. with Ksenija Stevanović): Archipelagos of Sound: Music and its History within the Imperial World Order, Zagreb: HDS & Cantus, 2005
- (ed. with Nikša Gligo, and Nada Bezić): Glazba prijelaza: Svečani zbornik za Evu Sedak / Music of Transition: Essays in Honour of Eva Sedak, Zagreb: ArTresor – HRT, 2009, ISBN 978-953-6522-67-5
- (ed. with Nikša Gligo, Seadeta Midžić, Daniel Teruggi, and Jerica Ziherl): Proceedings of the International Conference Pierre Schaeffer: mediArt, Rijeka: Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti, 2011, ISBN 978-953-6501-78-6
- (ed. with Nada Bezić): Nova nepoznata glazba: Svečani zbornik za Nikšu Gliga / New Unknown Music: Essays in Honour of Nikša Gligo, Zagreb: DAF, 2012, ISBN 978-953-6956-29-6
Articles
- Korak bliže, korak dalje, Odjek 64 (2011) 4, 33-38, ISSN 0029-8387
- Beyond musical Hermeneutics: The Path of Ivan Focht, Sophia Journal of European Studies 6 (2013) 6, 151-164, ISSN 1883-5635
- Foucault hört hin, in: Andreas Holzer & Annegret Huber (eds.): Musikanalysieren im Zeichen Foucaults (= Anklaenge: Wiener Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft), Wien: Mille Tre, 2014, pp. 55-68, ISBN 978-3-900198-39-8
- Foucault osluškuje, Libreto (2014)
- Tajna glazbe, Arti musices 45 (2014) 1, 3-32, ISSN 0587-5455
- Ogranci, Libreto (2015)
Translations
- Alexander García Düttmann: Visconti: Uvidi u krvi i mesu (Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood), Zagreb: Blok, 2006, ISBN 953-95317-0-5
- Christoph Menke: Prisutnost tragedije: Ogled o sudu i igri (The Presence of Tragedy: An Essay on Judgement and Play), Beograd – Zagreb: Beogradski krug – Multimedijalni institut, 2008, ISBN 978-953-7372-03-3
- Jacob Taubes: Zapadna eshatologija (Occidental Eschatology), Zagreb: Antibarbarus, 2009, ISBN 978-953249095-4