Feminist media studies of postsocialism are well practised at explaining how ideologies of gender and nation reinforce each other amid neoliberal capitalism on Europe's semi-periphery. They extend ...this, by critiquing media marginalization of Roma, into addressing regional formations of race. Yet they rarely go on to contextualize the region's place within "race" as a global structure of feeling, or how transnational processes of "race in translation" operate in postsocialism-as necessary as this would be to fulfil ever-more-frequent calls to combine postsocialist and post-colonial analytical lenses. Vestiges of racial exceptionalism thus still often characterize postsocialist studies despite Anikó Imre's intervention against them more than a decade ago. This paper traces how south-east European pop-folk music's politics of representation, "modernity" and "Balkanness" interact with aesthetics of ethnic/racial ambiguity in Western female celebrity to translate globalized, racialized tropes of exoticism into postsocialist national media cultures. By explaining how pop-folk female celebrity translates the transnational racialized aesthetics of so-called "ethnic simultaneity" into postsocialist glamour, the paper puts Imre's intervention against racial exceptionalism into practice, expanding postsocialist feminist media studies' conceptual tools for understanding the regional politics of ethnicity into engagement with the global politics of race.
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BFBNIB, NUK, PILJ, SAZU, UL, UM, UPUK
In Slovenia, pop-folk music is (was) perceived as a deviation rather than the continuation of the folk music tradition, and therefore received little interest among folklore researchers. Yet the ...processes of musical creativity and musical communication In folk culture reveal that the connection between the two is anything but negligible. This text raises the question whether the image and the activities of the modern amateur folk musician are indeed so very different from the image and the activities of the folk musician as defined by past definitions of folklore. An analysis of a sample of music serves as an illustration of the process in which pop-folk tunes transform into folk songs.
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