Description:
<jats:p>A traditional event Dragacevo trumpet festival, which is being held since
1961 in Guca (a small town in Western Serbia), represents the most visited
cultural manifestation in Serbia. A growing popularity of the Festival
(according to the organizer?s statistics, a number of visitors at the last
few festivals was around 800 000) has to do with, among other things, its
programme conception whose evolution reflects changes in cultural policies of
the organizer. The analysis of a diachronic dimension of the Festival in this
paper is aimed at marking main points in several decades of the Festival?s
development which contributed to re-positioning and affirmation of brass
bands practice in Serbia. The local event evolved into a manifestation of
intercultural profile not only by the structure of the audience, but also by
the music presented there. Nowadays, the concept is recognized practically in
all events of this convocation festival: in competition programmes - at
national and, recently introduced, international level, and especially at
revue performances of brass bands with free programmes. In specific
situations at the Festival, different trumpet practices are manifested
predominantly as the products of intercultural relations, implied in this
paper as an active coexistence of cultures. A way and a degree of interaction
between cultures result in the contents in which ?cultures in a dialogue? can
be clearly identified, but also in the hybrids with transcultural
characteristics. The exact interactive processes present a paradigmatic value
of the whole Dragacevo trumpet festival in Guca - as a meeting point of
(music) cultures of the world.</jats:p>