Ivana Miladinovic PricaVisiting Fulbright Scholar, 2024–25

Ivana Prica's research explores the institutionalization and dissemination of musical experimentalism in Serbia and Yugoslavia, specifically within the context of the Cold War cultural diplomacy, drawing parallels between Yugoslav, European, and American experimental and minimalist music. She is the author of two books, The Origins of Yugoslav Musical Minimalism (with Laura Emmery, 2024) and Od buke do tišine: poetika ranog stvaralaštva Džona Kejdža [From Noise to Silence: The Poetics of John Cage’s Early Works] (2011), and several edited volumes, including a book on a Serbian pianist Nada Kolundžija (2018),  composer Srdjan Hofman (2024), and Berislav Popović (2022). She has also published numerous articles in journals, such as Contemporary Music Review, New Sound, AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, Tacet, and Glissando. She has also collaborated in several notable international exhibitions, including Freedom of Sound: John Cage behind the Iron Curtain (Ludwig Museum, Budapest), Music in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Historical Archives of Belgrade), and The Origins of Yugoslav Musical Minimalism (UK Parobrod, Belgrade).

Ivana has participated in several research projects supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development, and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, and the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia. She has also received the “Pavle Stefanović” award for music criticism (2023) in Serbia.

Ivana completed her Ph.D. in Musicology at the Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade in 2018, where she has been appointed Assistant Professor of Musicology since 2021. Ivana currently serves as Vice-President of the Serbian Musicological Society.