Music-publicist Discourse in Croatia from the Students' Perspective: Usefulness and Credibility of Music-analytical Texts

The purpose of this paper is to investigate, analyse and describe the role journalistic texts occupy in the formation of attitudes about music among the student population in Croatia. The space of contemporary Croatian media is full of numerous problems, such as the degradation of information, commercialized content, censorship and self-censorship. A questionnaire entitled The influence of Music Publicist Writing on Understanding and Perceiving Music was prepared by the authors, where questions were primarily related to journalist issues: music criticism, columns, retrospectives and reviews of musical events, recordings and scores. The study included students from the third and fourth year of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula (Croatia).