Other activities

• Head of the Institute of Ethnomusicology (2019-);
• Member of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) (2005-);
• National representative at the ICTMD (2011-);
• Member of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology;
• Member of KED Folk Slovenia;
• Member of the Slovenian Musicological Society;
• Member of the Slovenian Ethnological Society;
• Expert associate of the Public Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for Cultural Activities (2009-2019);
• Lecturer in Introduction to Music Folklore, Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana;
• Member of the editorial boards of the international scientific journals Traditiones, Musicologist
• Occasional guest editor of the journals Traditiones and Muzikološki zbornik/Musicological Annual;
• Editor of the online platform for collections and materials of the Institute of Ethnomusicology Etnomuza, member of the editorial boards of the collections Etnofon, DigGNI, and Folkloristični zvezki;

Selected publications

Kovačič, Mojca. 2025. »Negotiating authenticity through folk singing interpretations«. Muzikološki zbornik 61/ 1: 33-60. https://journals.uni-lj.si/MuzikoloskiZbornik/article/view/22776,

Kovačič, Mojca, Urša Šivic. 2023. »Migracije nacionalizacije glasbe: od ljudske k narodnozabavni«. Dve domovini: razprave o izseljenstvu 58: 103-123. DOI: 10.3986/2023.2.06.

Kovačič, Mojca. 2023. »From polka dance to polka mass: polka in the (trans-)cultural identity context among the Slovenian diaspora in the USA«. In: AHMEDAJA, Ardian (ed.). Diverging ontologies in music for dancing: European voices V. Wien: Böhlau: 77-94. https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/pdf/10.7767/9783205217657

Kovačič, Mojca, Ana Hofman. 2023. »Slovenian Trubači: the economies of affect within and beyond ethno-racialized difference«. V: Hofman, Ana (ed.), et al. Affect’s social lives : post-Yugoslav reflections. 1st ed. Zbirka Kulturni spomin, 10. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU: 109-138. DOI: 10.3986/9789610507291_04

Kovačič, Mojca. 2022. »Zakaj, zakoj, warum, or why?: multilingualism in Austrian Carinthian popular music«. Traditiones 51/2: 119-138. DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2022510206.

Kovačič, Mojca. 2021. »’Kje se kaj začne in kje se kaj neha?’: različni pogledi na manjšinsko etničnost skozi glasbo in ples«. V: Pettan, Svanibor (ed.). Glasba in etnične manjšine : (trans)kulturna dinamika v Sloveniji po letu 1991 = Music and ethnic minorities : (trans)cultural dynamics in Slovenia after the year 1991. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete: 43-63. https://ebooks.uni-lj.si/ZalozbaUL/catalog/download/293/428/6520?inline=1

All publications (COBISS)