Studies in Popular Music
Edited by Danijela Š. Beard & Ljerka V. Rasmussen
June 2020 | Routledge
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