Education
Davidović studied musicology at the Zagreb Music Academy (Bachelor and Master of Arts) and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Hamburg.
Davidović studied musicology at the Zagreb Music Academy (Bachelor and Master of Arts) and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Hamburg.
His principal area of research is systematic musicology. His writings are focused on the aesthetic problem of listening and on the epistemological questions of the music studies. In his book Identity and Music: Between Criticism and Technique he explores the recent music scholarship concerned with identity politics.
He teaches at the Department of Musicology at the Music Academy in Zagreb.
He translated into Croatian books on aesthetics and on philosophy of religion. (ed Raul Knežević, assist Dalibor Davidović): ACEZANTEZ, Zagreb: Ministry of Information and Communication, 1999, (ed with Ksenija Stevanović): Archipelagos of Sound: Music and its History within the Imperial World Order, Zagreb: HDS & Cantus, 2005 (ed with Nikša Gligo, and Nada Bezić): Glazba prijelaza: Svečani zbornik za Evu Sedak / Music of Transition: Essays in Honour of Eva Sedak, Zagreb: ArTresor – HRT, 2009, (ed with Nikša Gligo, Seadeta Midžić, Daniel Teruggi, and Jerica Ziherl): Proceedings of the International Conference Pierre Schaeffer: mediArt, Rijeka: Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti, 2011, (ed with Nada Bezić): Nova nepoznata glazba: Svečani zbornik za Nikšu Gliga / New Unknown Music: Essays in Honour of Nikša Gligo, Zagreb: DAF, 2012.