Following the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and the subsequent international economic sanctions imposed against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that lasted until the early 2000s, a substantial number ...of Serbian composers emigrated to the United States. While this mass exodus of composers and academics had a devastating effect on Serbian cultural life, such a shift, enabled by globalisation and commodification of music, created an interest in Serbian music and culture with American audiences. That is, Serbian émigré composers who fled Yugoslavia during the war conflict conveyed their Serbian identity musically by incorporating certain folk elements. This article examines the unique ways in which select Serbian composers--Aleksandra Vrebalov, Milica Paranosic, and Natasha Bogojevich--integrated their Serbian/Yugoslav background within American multicultural society. More specifically, the article examines the effect of the infusion of Serbian motives in the works of these composers from the perspective of globalisation and commodification in the formation of their émigré Serbian musical identity.
While Croatia is often classified as a Balkan nation, its citizens tend to reject this label for reinforcing an image of their country as different and ‘backward’. Croatians respond by emphasizing ...their belonging to Western Europe and projecting the Balkan stereotype onto adjacent spaces outside the nation-state. Literary critic Milica Bakić-Hayden calls this phenomenon ‘nesting orientalisms’. Moving away from the traditional displacement onto another nation or, as in the case of multinational Bosnia and Herzegovina, onto a different ethnic group, contemporary Croatian fiction displays what I call intra-national nesting orientalisms. Namely, in these texts, it is the rural spaces within the country itself that often serve as a stand-in for the Balkans. Croatian author Renato Baretić’s 2003 novel Osmi povjerenik (‘The eighth commissioner’) offers an exemplary image of intra-national nesting orientalisms. Set on the imaginary island of Trečić, it tells the story of the Croatian government’s attempts to colonize its own island. Through colonial and postcolonial tropes, including references to Dracula, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Heart of Darkness, the novel utilizes intra-national nesting orientalisms to explore Croatia’s relationship with the West and its own interior. I argue that the novel’s intra-national nesting orientalisms function to satirize Croatia’s never-ending and often failing efforts to displace the negative stereotype of being a Balkan nation onto another place.
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Where is the Rural in an Urban World? Bolchover, Joshua; Lin, John; Lange, Christiane
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