ABSTRACT
Throughout the turbulent and fateful political events which formed Serbian history during the twentieth century, including several changes of state borders, Belgrade never lost its status of capital city: it was the seat of political power in the Kingdom of Serbia, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Serbia under German Nazi occupation, socialist Yugoslavia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. During that century alone Belgrade was heavily bombarded many times; in the course of the Second World War bombs were dropped on it both from German planes and from those of the Allied forces. Musical life in the country as a segment of culture had to conform to the imposed ideology of Nazification and Germanization that made the Serbian people a worthy member of the projected New Europe. Serbia was obliged to perform a strategic collaboration with the enemy as in the other European countries occupied by the army of the Third Reich.
