Collaborating across Borders: Music within the Creative Europe Transnational Projects

Sanela Nikolić

doi:10.25038/am.v0i28.661

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Sanela Nikolić Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3061-9317

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https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i28.661

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Creative Europe program (2014–2020); culture and creative sectors; project-framed music practices; de-articulation of music.

Abstract

This paper examines how music features in projects funded by the Creative Europe program (2014–2020, subprogram Culture). It takes into account 29 music-including projects, aiming to identify the functions of project-framed musical practices. The methodology involves qualitative analysis of project descriptions and outcomes from the Creative Europe Project Results platform, employing a comparative interpretive approach that links the aesthetic and functional aspects of music. The findings reveal six overlapping types of musical practices within project framing: music as a core cultural activity; as a tool for social emancipation and civil-sector intervention; as an element of cultural networks; as part of an interdisciplinary cultural space; and as cultural heritage. The paper pays particular attention to the concept of the de-articulation of music, which pertains to its relational and participatory potential within the broader cultural domain. A tension between promoting music as an independent creative sector and acknowledging its broader social functions has been spotted as a defining aspect of the European Union cultural policy toward music.

Author Biography

Sanela Nikolić, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia

Sanela Nikolić, PhD, graduated in Musicology from the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, where she also completed her Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies with a specialization in Theory of Arts and Media. She has been an Assistant Professor of Applied Aesthetics in the same faculty, teaching at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels, as well as in PhD programs at the University of Arts. Her research has been published in national and international journals and edited volumes. She is the author of two academic books in Serbian: Avant-garde Art as a Theoretical Practice (2015) and Bauhaus—Applied Aesthetics of Music, Theater, and Dance (2016). She has participated in projects funded by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development and was a team member of the ERASMUS+ project DEMUSIS, as well as the IN.TUNE University Alliance. Nikolić is a member of several professional associations, including the Musicological Society of Serbia and the International Association for Aesthetics, where she served as Delegate-at-Large (2019–2022). She is the Managing Editor of the AM Journal of Art and Media Studies and a member of the editorial board of Brill’s Transcultural Aesthetics series. Her work focuses on applied aesthetics, interdisciplinarity, and the relationship between art, theory, and digital humanities.

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