Hor 29 novembar

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The hor 29 novembar ( Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [ xɔ̂ːr ˈdʋǎːdɛseːt i ˈdɛ̂vɛti ˈnɔ̌ʋeːmbar ], choir “November 29”) is a choir in Vienna . According to his self-portrayal, he is "an open collective in which everyone can participate".

history

Hor 29 novembar was founded in 2009 by around ten immigrants from the former Yugoslavia . The name of the choir - November 29th - refers to the founding day of Yugoslavia by the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation (AVNOJ) in 1943 and the later Republic Day (national holiday) of Yugoslavia.

The choir was initially conceived in 2009 as a one-off, interventionist art project on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the first Yugoslav workers' association in Vienna, »Mladi Radnik«. Due to the positive echo and further invitations to perform, the activities were continued and the choir still exists today.

The choir currently has around 25 members with different social and cultural backgrounds. Most of the members are still migrants from the former Yugoslavia, but members from Austria , Italy , France , Bulgaria , Ukraine and Slovenia are also part of the choir. Jana Dolečki has been leading the choir since 2012.

Members said in interviews:

"We are not a choir, we are an anti-choir."
“We care to be a little subversive and that's why we say - for fun - we're a punk choir. [...] We sing, rehearse and are disciplined, but we are not a professional choir and we don't have the classic rules and concepts like other choirs. "
“The main motivation is to be part of a political group and to combine political activism with singing. … You don't necessarily have to be able to sing in order to participate in the choir, because strictly speaking the choir is not a music project. It is more of a political and social group event and offers the opportunity to raise our voices at demonstrations and other public events. "

The choir can look back on numerous appearances on the streets of Vienna and in underground stations ("intervention safaris"), at universities, in theaters, museums ( Museum Quarter Vienna, Museum of the History of Yugoslavia Belgrade , District Museum Brigittenau ) and at festivals (World Refugee Festival 2010, Donaufestival in Krems 2010, Festival of Political Song 2011, Balkan Fever Festival 2012, Vienna Week 2014, Festival Alternative Choirs 2015, Ute Bock Cup 2017, Festival of Activist Choirs "Sve u jedan glas" in Zagreb , "Chorkrawall" in Leipzig ) back, u . a. together with the Harri Stojka Trio, Jelena Popržan, Esther Bejarano and Kid Pex .

In 2015 the choir initiated the first Festival Alternative Choirs in Vienna, with participating choirs from Austria, Germany , Slovenia , Croatia and Serbia . In 2018 the third Festival of Alternative Choirs took place in Vienna, with participating choirs from Austria, Poland , Slovenia and Serbia.

In 2018 the choir provided the soundtrack for the film The Most Beautiful Country in the World (director: Želimir Žilnik ).

repertoire

The hor 29 novembar sees itself as an »activist choir« and rejects racist or geographically restricted concepts of national heritage and national culture. His repertoire emphasizes the cultural and political activities of migrants who have lived in Austria since the 1960s.

At first, the choir sang mainly partisan and workers' songs from Yugoslavia, which glorified the anti-fascist struggle and socialist construction (and is therefore part of an international trend), albeit with a certain irony, but the repertoire is constantly growing and changing worldwide Well-known anti-fascist and "anti-nationalist" songs such as the Internationale and Bella Ciao , but also transcoded Austropop and Turbofolk songs as well as own compositions are recorded and in different languages ​​(including Albanian , Arabic , German , English , Greek , Italian , Yiddish , Catalan , Kurdish , Portuguese , Romany , Serbo-Croatian , Slovenian , Spanish and Turkish ) can be sung.

literature

  • Rosa Reitsamer: Not Singing in Tune. The Hor 29 Novembar Choir and the Invention of a Translocal Do-It-Yourself Popular Music Heritage in Austria. In: Popular Music and Society 39: 1 (2016), pp. 59-75.
  • Birgit Wittstock: Sing yourself free. In: Falter , 24.15 (2015), pp. 44–45.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Reitsamer 2016, p. 62; see. About - hor 29 novembar (official website).
  2. ↑ Dabić 2010; Reitsamer 2016, p. 61; see. November 29, Yugoslavia: Day of the Republic (University of Oslo)
  3. ↑ Dabić 2010; Reitsamer 2016, p. 62.
  4. ↑ a b c Reitsamer 2016, p. 61.
  5. ↑ Bazalka 2018.
  6. ↑ Mazak 2013.
  7. ↑ a b Reitsamer 2016, p. 63.
  8. ↑ Reitsamer 2016, p. 68.
  9. ↑ Bazalka 2018.
  10. ↑ Lujo Parežanin: Pjesme za političko osnaživanje obespravljenih Kulturpunkt.hr , April 18, 2018; Silvija Jakovljević: 'Prkosno potvrđujemo stereotipe o glasnim feministkinjama' Libela , April 16, 2018; Before Konjikušić: Ana Hofman: Partizanske pesme uče nas kako da dignemo glas Novosti , May 28, 2018.
  11. ^ Frank Schubert: Choir riot. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , September 14, 2018; Festival Chorkrawall: Interview with the choir (Leipzig) freie-radios.net .
  12. ↑ Blic 2017; FAC - Festival Alternative Choirs 12. – 13. June 2015 Chormusik.at .
  13. ↑ FAC 2018: Choirs from ex-Yugoslavia come to Wien Kosmo , April 25, 2018; Festival of Alternative Choirs Falter ; FAC 2018 - Festival of Alternative Choirs, Slovenian Cultural Information Center SKICA .
  14. ↑ Michael Omasta: Far from Home: "The most beautiful country in the world". In: Falter 49/18 (December 5, 2018).
  15. ↑ Among other things with Le Zbor and Zbor Praksa in Croatia , Raspeani Skopjani in Macedonia , Kombinat and Z'borke in Slovenia and Prroba, Uho, Horkestar and Svetonazori in Serbia ; Wittstock p. 44; Sretenović 2016; Lupiga 2016.
  16. ↑ Reitsamer 2016, p. 66.
  17. ↑ Dabić 2010; Mazak 2013; Banu / Diskovic 2014; Sretenović 2016; Večernje Novosti 2017; Reitsamer 2016, pp. 67 and 69-71; see. hor 29 novembar: Songbook. Repertòār . Self-published, 2016; P. 2.