CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURAL EVENTS IN NOVI PAZAR IN THE SECOND HALF OF XX AND AT THE BEGINNING OF XXI CENTURY

Abstract

After the liberation in 1945, many cultural institutions started working in the city of Novi Pazar. With the development of these cultural institutions, art programs as well as mass events mainly related to national holidays and historical jubilees also began to develop. During the years of socialism, with the main slogan of brotherhood and unity, citizens of this city got the opportunity to be culturally and spiritually elevated. This "cultural renaissance" of Novi Pazar lasted until the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia in 1991, followed by discontinuities of cultural activities. Since 2000, the old cultural values have gradually begun to roll again, but with new ideas and aspirations towards modern amenities. Cultural institutions are mostly the same, except that their concept of work has been significantly changing and improving. Together with the abolition of certain national holidays, mass events have disappeared, but new ones have been created instead. Nowadays, in addition to common manifestation of character, events that promote the culture of the Bosniak national minority are insisted upon, as well as events on the occasion of major religious holidays (both Orthodox and Muslims), which today form a very important part of cultural life in Novi Pazar.