Iva Nenic

Iva Nenić (1979, Belgrade) graduated ethnomusicology from the Belgrade’s University of Arts as valedictorian in 2004. The title of her graduation thesis is “Thinking about music, thinking music: towards the interpretation of musico-cultural practice of Muslim shepherds’ music from the Serbian Pešter plateau”. She was awarded the prize “Aleksandar Đorđević” for the best student of Ethnomusicology department. She took part in advanced one-year undergraduate programs of Belgrade Open School and The Belgrade Women's Studies Centre, and is about to obtain master’s degree at the Group for theory of arts and media (University of Arts, Belgrade). Professional memberships include Interdisciplinary Ethnomusicological Society (IDEm, co-founder and vice president) and Serbian Ethnomusicological Society (SED, member). Iva works as the editor of several musical shows at the Radio Belgrade’s Third Program, and also is editor-in-chief of the web journal E-volucija. Her research interests include popular and cyber culture, traditional and world music of the Balkans, ideology, contemporary arts, gender.