1st Edition
Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia
By Uroš Čvoro
Copyright 2014
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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:... Read more
Introduction The Three Stories of Turbo-folk; Part I Turbo-nation: Turbo-folk and Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia, 1970–2010; Chapter 1 The People’s Eastern Kitsch: Self-management, Modernisation and ‘Newly Composed Folk Music’ in Yugoslavia; Chapter 2 Remember the Nineties?: Turbo-folk as the Vanishing Mediator of Nationalism; Chapter 3 Beyond Serbia: Turbo-folk across Cultural and National Boundaries; Part II Turbo-culture: Cultural Responses to Turbo-folk; Chapter 4 Turbo-art: Music and National Identity in the Work of Contemporary Artists from Former Yugoslavia; Chapter 5 They Can Be Heroes: Popular Culture and Public Sculpture in Former Yugoslavia; Chapter 6 Singin’ in the Film: Turbo-folk and Self-exoticisation in the Films of Sr?an Dragojevi?; conclusion Conclusion;
Biography
Uroš Čvoro is a Senior Lecturer in Art Theory at UNSW Australia. His research areas include contemporary art and national identity, popular culture and post-socialism, and the relation between contemporary art and politics.
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