Lada Duraković

Lada Duraković (ldurakov@unipu.hr) is a full professor at the Academy of Music in Pula. She graduated in musicology from the University of Ljubljana and received her PhD from the University of Zagreb. She has participated in numerous conferences in Croatia and abroad and has published scholarly papers and lexicographical articles. Duraković is the author of several books: Pulski glazbeni život u razdoblju fašističke diktature, 1926.–1943. (The Musical Life in Pula under the Fascist Regime, 1926–1943); Ideologija i glazbeni život: Pula 1945–1966 (Ideology and Musical Life: Pula, 1945–1966); Glazba kao odgojno sredstvo u formiranju “socijalističkog čovjeka”: nastava glazbe u osnovnim školama u Hrvatskoj (1945–1965) (Music as an Educational Tool in the Formation of the “Socialist Man”: Music Education in Primary Schools in Croatia, 1945–1965); and Zaboravljena glazba: Pula, 1900.–1950. (Forgotten Music: Pula, 1900–1950). She is also co-author, with Marijana Kokanović Marković, of Franz Lehár – Kapelnik Carske i kraljevske mornarice u Puli (1894.–1896.) (Franz Lehár – Bandmaster of the Imperial and Royal Navy in Pula, 1894–1896). Her research focuses on the relationship between ideology and music in the twentieth century.

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