Dr. David Verbuč
Dr. David Verbuč
Dr. David Verbuč is one of the most prominent representatives of the new generation of Slovenian ethnomusicologists, who are dedicated to researching various forms of traditional and popular music in Slovenia and abroad. Since 2025, he has been lecturing on ethnomusicology and popular music at the Department of Musicology of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Before that, he taught at the Faculty of Humanities at Karl University in Prague between 2014 and 2025.
After completing his undergraduate studies at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, David Verbuč first independently researched contemporary forms of village musical creativity in the Zgornja Savinjska dolina (Sovenia) and published several scientific articles (and one CD) on this subject. In 2008, he went on to pursue postgraduate studies in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Davis, where he received his doctorate in 2014 on the topic of unconventional musical spaces and scenes in the USA. This work was then published by Routledge in 2021 as a book titled DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community. In addition to the aforementioned book, he has published a number of scientific articles in established international scientific journals, including American Music, Communication and the Public, Ethnomusicology Forum, Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Journal of World Popular Music, Lidé mesta / Urban People, and Traditiones.