Made in Yugoslavia

Studies in Popular Music

Edited by Danijela Š. Beard & Ljerka V. Rasmussen


June 2020 | Routledge

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Introduction

Reclaiming the Legacy of Yugoslav Popular Music

DANIJELA Š. BEARD with LJERKA V. RASMUSSEN


 

Part I: Zabavna-Pop

1. Networking Zabavna Music: Singers, Festivals and Estrada

JELENA ARNAUTOVIĆ

2. “Melodies from the Adriatic:” Mediterranean Influence in Zabavna Music Festivals of the 1950s and 1960s

ANITA BUHIN

3. The Sarajevo Pop-Rock Scene: Music from the Yugoslav Crossroads

VESNA ANDREE ZAIMOVIĆ

4. Yugoslav Film and Popular Culture: Arsen Dedić’s Songs in Films

IRENA PAULUS


 

Part II: Rock, Punk, New Wave

5. Belgrade Rock Experience: From Sixties Innocence to Eighties Relevance

ALEKSANDAR ŽIKIĆ

6. Jugoton: From State Recording Giant to Alternative Producer of Yugoslav New Wave

BRANKO KOSTELNIK

7. “Absolutely Yours:” Yugoslav Disco under Late Socialism

MARKO ZUBAK

8. The Aesthetics of Music Videos in Yugoslav Rock Music: Josipa Lisac, EKV, Rambo Amadeus

IVANA MEDIĆ

9. Bijelo Dugme: The Politics of Remembrance within the Post-Yugoslav Popular Music Scene

ANA PETROV


 

Part III: Narodna (Folk) and Neofolk Music

10. Starogradska Muzika: An Ethnography of Musical Nostalgia

MARIJA DUMNIĆ VILOTIJEVIĆ

11. “My Juga, My Dearest Flower:” The Yugoslav Legacy of Newly Composed Folk Music Revisited

IVA NENIĆ

12. Music in Macedonia: Yugoslavia’s Balkans

VELIKA STOJKOVA SERAFIMOVSKA

13. Fantasy, Sexuality, and Yugoslavism in the Music of Lepa Brena’s Music

ZLATAN DELIĆ


 

Part IV: The Politics of Popular Music Under Socialism

14. Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest

DEAN VULETIC

15. “Rocking the Party Line:” The Yugoslav Festival of Patriotic and Revolutionary Song and the Polemics of “Soc-Pop” in the 1970s

DANIJELA Š. BEARD

16. “Comrades, We Don’t Believe You!” Or, Do We Just Want to Dance With You?: The Slovenian Punk Subculture in Socialist Yugoslavia

GREGOR TOMC

17. Music Labor, Class, and Socialist Entrepreneurship: Yugoslav Self-Management Revisited

ANA HOFMAN

18. Music for the “Youth Day Central Ceremony” after Tito: De-ritualization and Other Indices of Yugoslav Decline

NAILA CERIBAŠIĆ and JELKA VUKOBRATOVIĆ


 

Coda

19. Yugoslav Popular Music and Global Histories of the Cold War

CATHERINE BAKER


 

Afterword

20. “What Would You Give to be in my Place?:”A Conversation with Goran Bregović

VESNA ANDREE ZAIMOVIĆ, LJERKA V. RASMUSSEN, and DANIJELA Š. BEARD