„NEKA JE ŽENSKO, ALI BIĆE GUSLAR” – IDEOLOGIJA JEDNOG INSTRUMENTA / “IT DOES NOT MATTER THAT SHE IS A FEMALE, SHE WILL BE A GUSLE PLAYER” – THE IDEOLOGY OF AN INSTRUMENT (original) (raw)

Within the theoretical and methodological framework based on the concept of the ideology of tradition, I analyze a wide and complex repertoire of attitudes toward female gusle players. Aside from the techniques of representation demonstrated in scientific discourses, I examine the status of female gusle players by assessing the material obtained during several years of field researches (the “male” perspective), and I also refer to the public (media) discourse, acknowledging the characteristics of media and popular culture. The “researcher’s voice” is also interpreted as part of a discourse on the ideology of tradition.