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  • Turbo-folk music and cultural representations of national identity in former Yugoslavia
    Čvoro, Uroš
    Turbo-folk music is the most controversial form of popular culture in the new states of former Yugoslavia. Theoretically ambitious and innovative, this book is a new account of popular music that has ... been at the centre of national, political and cultural debates for over two decades. Beginning with 1970s Socialist Yugoslavia, Uroš Čvoro explores the cultural and political paradoxes of turbo-folk: described as 'backward' music, whose misogynist and Serb nationalist iconography represents a threat to cosmopolitanism, turbo-folk's iconography is also perceived as a 'genuinely Balkan' form of resistance to the threat of neo-liberalism. Taking as its starting point turbo-folk's popularity across national borders, Čvoro analyses key songs and performers in Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia. The book also examines the effects of turbo on the broader cultural sphere - including art, film, sculpture and architecture - twenty years after its inception and popularization. What is proposed is a new way of reading the relationship of contemporary popular music to processes of cultural, political and social change - and a new understanding of how fundamental turbo-folk is to the recent history of former Yugoslavia and its successor states
    Type of material - book ; adult, serious
    Publication and manufacture - Burlington, VT ; Farnham : Ashgate, 2014
    Language - english
    ISBN - 978-1-4724-2036-7; 1-4724-2036-5; 978-1-4724-2037-4; 978-1-4724-2038-1
    COBISS.SI-ID - 57353058

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Faculty of Arts, Central Humanities Library, Lj. Ljubljana FFLJ reading room 1 cop.
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