This paper deals with features and articles on music and art published in the
journal Danica, in the period 1860-1872. Selected articles contain
significant testimonies on the place of musical practice in the everyday life
of Serbs and other Slavic people living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the
nineteenth century. The feature articles abound with details on the artistic
activities of respected individuals and singing societies, popular
cultural-artistic events (besedas, balls, dances), new publications on music
and other news. Several articles were dedicated to aesthetic and
philosophical views on art. In a separate section of this paper, I analyze
the narrative style of these articles. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike
Srbije, br. ON 177004: Serbian Musical Identities within Local and Global
Frameworks: Traditions, Changes, Challenges]