Kumer, Zmaga
Kumer, Zmaga
Kumer, Zmaga, Yugoslav ethnomusicologist; b. Ribnica, April 24, 1924. She studied Slovene literature at the Univ. of Ljubljana (degree, 1948) and musicology at the Ljubljana Academy of Music (degree, 1952). She then returned to the Univ., where she received her Ph.D. (1955, with a diss. on Slovene variants of the song Puer natus in Bethlehem) and subsequently taught (from 1966). Her studies focus on the texts of Slovene folk songs as well as on the migration and transformation of these songs among other Alpine cultures.
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