The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: thinking politically with popular music of the Balkans
Catherine Baker

1 The emergence of the world music concept in the Balkans: early and more recent steps
Iva Nenić and Tatjana Nikolić

2 Lăutari, music-making, and social practices of live performance in southern Romania
Margaret Hiebert Beissinger

3 Politics, activism, and Romani music: interpreting trends in Serbia, North Macedonia, and Bulgaria
Carol Silverman

4 Electronic dance music festivals in Romania: a case of reversed Balkanism
Ruxandra Trandafoiu

5 The Balkans in the Eurovision Song Contest
Dean Vuletic

6 Reviving nineteenth-century Wallachian and Moldavian urban music
Florin Iordan

7 Bosnian discography before World War I: recording artists, repertoire, and politics
Risto Pekka Pennanen

8 The development and institutionalization of Albanian music during the communist period
Erjada Progonati

9 ‘Please, Mile, don’t sing anything political’: Turbo-folk, politics and the restoration of capitalism in Serbia
Aleksandar Momčilović

10 The artistic units of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina (ARBiH), popular patriotic music production, and the question of national identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the war from 1992 to 1995
Petra Hamer

11 The politics of performance and popular music in Turkey
Gonca Girgin and Merve Eken Kucukaksoy

12 Songs after genocide: music of hatred and triumphalism
Hariz Halilovich

13 Popular music and the ‘mass culture’ of socialist Yugoslavia in the eyes of critics and theorists
Reana Senjković

14 To traghoudhi tou nekrou adelfou: Mikis Theodorakis’ autoethnographic and political perspectives in a contemporary Greek laiki tragedy
Maria Athanasiou

15 Groovy aesthetics, intercultural perspectives, and the rise of Ethnojazz in Bulgaria
Claire Levy

16 The sound of distinction: social class and political orientations as predictors of music taste in Croatia
Krešimir Krolo and Željka Tonković

17 Popular culture and pandemic politics: musically mitigating COVID-19 in 2020 Bulgaria
Donna A. Buchanan

18 Women and gender in the early record industry in former Yugoslavia: snapshots of singers, a composer, industrial manpower, and gendered humour
Naila Ceribašić

19 The musical film genre in Romanian cinema: from melodramatic socialism to postmodern irony
Doru Pop

20 In search of national style: Yugoslav popular music between the Balkans and the Mediterranean
Anita Buhin

21 How do you solve a problem like Korea?: Laibach and the poetics of politics
Irena Šentevska

22 White power music and antifascist rap: anti-system music in Greece during the 2009–21 crises
George Kordas

23 Popular culture or resistance?: rap and politics in Turkey since the 1990s
Ozan Eren

24 The neopontic music of Greece: traditions of modernity and the a/politics of identity
Ioannis (Yannis) Tsekouras

25 Just Mediterranean, please: Croatian neoklapa music and national (Re)positioning
Eni Buljubašić

26 Between the virtual and the make-believe: anthems, bells, and a performance for Liberland along the Croatian and Serbian Danube
Ian MacMillen

27 Queering Bulgarian pop-folk: hybridity, gaga feminism, and defamiliarization in chalga
Elitza Kotzeva

28 Understanding gender and sexuality in sevdah as a popular genre
Damir Imamović

29 Black popular musics in Yugoslavia
Linda Cimardi

30 ‘The Blacks of Yugoslavia’: racialization, resistance, and Kosova’s ‘MTV generation’
Jane C. Sugarman

31 Br/otherhood and dis/unity: racial differentiations across the former Yugoslav region and Serbian diaspora communities in Serbia’s two major music festivals
Jelena Gligorijević

32 What is this ‘Balkan’ in Balkan popular culture?: Stuart Hall’s sociology of popular culture, identity and race through analogy and connection
Catherine Baker

33 From AfroGreeks to the Black Mediterranean: de/facing whiteness in the rap of Negros tou Moria
Penelope Papailias

34 Stacking nightingales, male tears, and albums of the year: how the Balkans and other scales of domestic hip-hop are crafted
Owen Kohl and Dragana Cvetanović

35 ‘Popularity’ in the YouTube era: an anthropological analysis of music trending on Serbian YouTube and IDJTV
Marija Ajduk

36 From turbo music to turbo politics: pop-folk and anti-establishment politics in Bulgaria
Dragomir Stoyanov and Elza Ibroscheva

37 ‘Dajem ti srce, zemljo moja’: patriotic music and national unity in Croatia in the aftermath of the 2020 Petrinja earthquake
Ivana Polić

38 ‘And then we sang’: affective communities and Russian/EU cultural diplomacy in Moldova’s Victory Day and Europe Day, 2022
Domenico Valenza

39 Queer Yugosphere: queer audiences and popular music in the post-Yugoslav space
Mišo Kapetanović

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Biography

Catherine Baker is Reader in 20th Century History at the University of Hull.