On Friday, January 26, starting at 12 noon, on the occasion of three decades of work of the
Moba group, the Institute of European Studies is organizing a sermon on the occasion of St. Sava Day
Dr. Jelena Jovanović
MOBA GROUP AND SERBIAN FOLK SONGS, THROUGH RESEARCH
AND THROUGH LIVE SOUND
Dr. Jelena Jovanović is a Principal Research Fellow at the Musicological Institute of the Serbian
Academy of Sciences and Arts and one of the leading Serbian ethnomusicologists. She graduated
from the Department of Ethnomusicology of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in 1991, received
her master’s degree in 2001, and received her doctorate in 2010. She was elected as a
corresponding member of the Department of Arts at SANU in 2018. The fields of her scientific
work are elements of the Serbian rural vocal tradition of Šumadija and Central Serbia – Serbian
musical dialects in spatial and diachronic perspective; layers of the vocal tradition of the Serbs in
Romania in a cultural-historical context; performance and reception of rural vocal tradition;
applied ethnomusicology; folklore motifs in Yugoslav popular music of the 70s of the 20th
century. She published five monographs of national and international importance. Member of the
Study Choir of the Musicological Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
(1983–1993) and the women’s church choir “St. John of Damascus” (since 1993). He is one of
the founders and managers of the female singing group “Moba” (since 1993). In the period
2014–2016. editor-in-chief of the international magazine Muzikologija.
The audience can follow the lecture live, as well as via Zoom, with a prior registration at the
following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GQgFFPeXSIOTluxkI9NV2w