Proceedings of the international musicological conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Serbian (former Yugoslavian) composer Ljubica Marić (1909-2003), organized by the Institute of Musicology and the Department of Fine Arts of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA), from 5th to 7th November 2009 in the halls of the SASA. The opus of Ljubica Marić holds a key position in the history of Serbian music. She discovered a source of inspiration in the Serbian folk and church music heritage and blended this with modernist means. With papers of fourteen Serbian and twelve musicologists from eight other countries with topics ranging from analysis of archival research and coompositional procedures, to wide contextualization of Marić's works. Divided in three parts: An individual voice in the music of modernism ; Years of learning, travelling, friendship ; Works: 'Breath / Influence / Spirit'.
On page 153-167 the lecture 'A woman's avant-garde sound in 1933: Ljubica Marić in Amsterdam' in which Dutch musicologist Helen Metzelaar situates Marić within European political developments in the early 1930s, sketch her musical background and examines the 11th Music Festival in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1933, organized by the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), and the reception of Marić's 'Woodwind Quintet' that was performed.
The conference proceedings are in Serbian (with English abstract) or in English (with Serbian abstract). The accompanying CD contains the translations into English of almost all the conference proceedings published in Serbian in the book.