ABSTRACT

Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of popular music in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book consists of chapters by leading scholars and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of music in the region that for most of the past century was known as Yugoslavia. Exploring the role played by music in Yugoslav art, culture, social movements, and discourses of statehood, this book offers a gateway into scholarly explanation of a key region in Eastern Europe. An introduction provides an overview and background on popular music in Yugoslavia, followed by chapters in four thematic sections: Zabavna-Pop; Rock, Punk, and New Wave; Narodna (Folk) and Neofolk Music; and the Politics of Popular Music Under Socialism.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

Reclaiming the Legacy of Yugoslav Popular Music

part I|45 pages

Zabavna-pop

chapter 1|10 pages

Networking Zabavna Muzika

Singers, Festivals, and Estrada

chapter 2|11 pages

“Melodies From the Adriatic”

Mediterranean Influence in Zabavna Music Festivals of the 1950s and 1960s

chapter 3|13 pages

The Sarajevo Pop-Rock Scene

Music from the Yugoslav Crossroads

chapter 4|9 pages

Yugoslav Film and Popular Culture

Arsen Dedić’s Songs in Films

part II|62 pages

Rock, Punk, New Wave

chapter 5|14 pages

Belgrade Rock Experience

From Sixties Innocence to Eighties Relevance

chapter 6|14 pages

Jugoton

From State Recording Giant to Alternative Producer of Yugoslav New Wave

chapter 7|10 pages

“Absolutely Yours”

Yugoslav Disco Under Late Socialism

chapter 8|12 pages

The Aesthetics of Music Videos in Yugoslav Rock Music

Josipa Lisac, EKV, Rambo Amadeus

chapter 9|10 pages

Bijelo Dugme

The Politics of Remembrance Within the Post-Yugoslav Popular Music Scene

part III|41 pages

Narodna (Folk) and Neofolk Music

chapter 10|10 pages

Starogradska Muzika

An Ethnography of Musical Nostalgia

chapter 11|10 pages

“My Juga, My Dearest Flower”

The Yugoslav Legacy of Newly Composed Folk Music Revisited

chapter 12|9 pages

Music in Macedonia

At the Source of Yugoslavia’s Balkans

part IV|67 pages

The Politics of Popular Music Under Socialism

chapter 15|19 pages

“Rocking the Party Line”

The Yugoslav Festival of Patriotic and Revolutionary Song and the Polemics of “Soc-Pop” in the 1970s

chapter 16|12 pages

“Comrades, We Don’t Believe You!” Or, Do We Just Want to Dance With You?

The Slovenian Punk Subculture in Socialist Yugoslavia

chapter 17|12 pages

Music Labor, Class, and Socialist Entrepreneurship

Yugoslav Self-Management Revisited

chapter 18|12 pages

Music for the “Youth Day Central Ceremony” After Tito

De-ritualization and Other Indices of Yugoslav Decline

part |8 pages

Afterword