Ana Hofman
The New Life of Partisan Songs
First edition, May 2016
210 pages
Price: 700 din.
Ana Hofman (born 1976) is researcher at the Institute for Cultural Studies and Studies of Memory at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Ljubljana and an assistant professor of humanities at the University of Nova Gorica. Her field of research interest includes music in socialism and post-socialism, music and gender politics, music and cultural memory, and scientific practices of ethnomusicology in neoliberalism (with a focus on the former Yugoslavia). She has published several works in scientific journals, as well as the book Staging Socialist Femininity: Gender politics and folklore performance in Serbia (Brill Publishing 2011), which is concerned with gender and musical practice in the period of late socialism in southeast Serbia. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Chicago, at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, at the University of Graz, and at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The New Life of Partisan Songs is a revised edition of the book Music, Politics and Affect: The New Life of Partisan Songs in Slovenia (2015), which was published in the Slovenian language as a part of the “Cultural Memory” series of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences, which supported the preparation of this edition.