ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the intersections between music and religion before and after the Srebrenica genocide, a mass murder of over 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys in the small Bosnian city of Srebrenica in July 1995. It traces how the politicization and instrumentalization of religion in the 1990s affected the role of religious music during the war in Bosnia and after the Srebrenica genocide. In particular, it shows how this politicization of religion determined not only the nature of responses to the Srebrenica genocide in religious music; it also determined the meaning and interpretation of the genocide within a broader framework of the war in Bosnia. In addition, this politicization and the resulting religious revival of the 1990s affected how survivors coped with their experience of genocide.
