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Ankica Petrović (1943-) is a musicologist from Sarajevo, Bosnia. She earned a BA in music theory (1968) and a BA in musicology and ethnomusicology (1974) at the University of Sarajevo before earning her PhD at Queen's University, Belfast (1977) with a dissertation on ganga, a form of Bosnian traditional rural singing. She was a music producer at Radio Sarajevo (1967–79) and assistant professor (1979–86) and associate professor (1986–92) at the Sarajevo Academy of Music. Her research is focussed on Eastern-European traditional music, the aesthetics of rural Bosnian and Balkan music, Sephardi music traditions in Bosnia and the Balkans, and various styles of religious chant. She is the author and producer of numerous radio broadcasts on traditional music for the BBC, Kol Israel Jerusalem and Radio Brussels, and has been involved with the recordings Traditional Music on the Soil of Bosnia and Hercegovina (Diskoton, 1986) and Bosnia: Echoes from an Endangered World (Smithsonian Folkways, SF 40407, 1993).