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Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of popular music in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book consists of chapters by leading scholars and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of music in the region that for most of the past century was known as Yugoslavia. Exploring the role played by music in Yugoslav art, culture, social movements, and discourses of statehood, this book offers a gateway into scholarly explanation of a key region in Eastern Europe. An introduction provides an overview and background on popular music in Yugoslavia, followed by chapters in four thematic sections: Zabavna-Pop; Rock, Punk, and New Wave; Narodna (Folk) and Neofolk Music; and the Politics of Popular Music Under Socialism.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Series Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Reclaiming the Legacy of Yugoslav Popular Music - Danijela S. Beard with Ljerka V. Rasmussen
PART I: ZABAVNA-POP
1 Networking Zabavna Music: Singers, Festivals and Estrada - Jelena Arnautovic
2 "Melodies from the Adriatic:" Mediterranean Influence in Zabavna Music Festivals of the 1950s and 1960s - Anita Buhin
3 The Sarajevo Pop-Rock Scene: Music from the Yugoslav Crossroads - Vesna Andree Zaimovic
4 Yugoslav Film and Popular Culture: Arsen Dedic's Songs in Films - Irena Paulus
PART II: ROCK, PUNK, NEW WAVE
5 Belgrade Rock Experience: From Sixties Innocence to Eighties Relevance - Aleksandar Zikic
6 Jugoton: From State Recording Giant to Alternative Producer of Yugoslav New Wave - Branko Kostelnik
7 "Absolutely Yours:" Yugoslav Disco under Late Socialism - Marko Zubak
8 The Aesthetics of Music Videos in Yugoslav Rock Music: Josipa Lisac, EKV, Rambo Amadeus - Ivana Medic
9 Bijelo Dugme: The Politics of Remembrance within the Post-Yugoslav Popular Music Scene - Ana Petrov
PART III: NARODNA (FOLK) AND NEOFOLK MUSIC
10 Starogradska Muzika: An Ethnography of Musical Nostalgia - Marija Dumnic Vilotijevic
11 "My Juga, My Dearest Flower:" The Yugoslav Legacy of Newly Composed Folk Music Revisited - Iva Nenic
12 Music in Macedonia: Yugoslavia's Balkans - Velika Stojkova Serafimovska
13 Fantasy, Sexuality, and Yugoslavism in the Music of Lepa Brena's Music - Zlatan Delic
PART IV: THE POLITICS OF POPULAR MUSIC UNDER SOCIALISM
14 Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest - Dean Vuletic
15 "Rocking the Party Line:" The Yugoslav Festival of Patriotic and Revolutionary Song and the Polemics of "Soc-Pop" in the 1970s - Danijela S. Beard
16 "Comrades, We Don't Believe You!" Or, Do We Just Want to Dance With You?: The Slovenian Punk Subculture in Socialist Yugoslavia - Gregor Tomc
17 Music Labor, Class, and Socialist Entrepreneurship: Yugoslav Self-Management Revisited - Ana Hofman
18 Music for the "Youth Day Central Ceremony" after Tito: De-ritualization and Other Indices of Yugoslav Decline - Naila Ceribasic and Jelka Vukobratovic
CODA
19 Yugoslav Popular Music and Global Histories of the Cold War - Catherine Baker
AFTERWORD
20 "What Would You Give to be in my Place?:"A Conversation with Goran Bregovic - Vesna Andree Zaimovic, Ljerka V. Rasmussen, and Danijela S. Beard
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Danijela S. Beard is Associate Lecturer in Music at Cardiff University, UK. She was previously a lecturer in Music at Nottingham University and an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research (Royal Holloway, University of London).
Ljerka V. Rasmussen holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University and is on the faculty of music at Tennessee State University, USA. She is the author of
Newly Composed Folk Music of Yugoslavia.
Summary
Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of popular music in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Essays cover the major figures, styles, and social contexts of music in the region.
