Echoing the Beats of Turbo-folk: Popular Music and Nationalism in ex-Yugoslavia












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            * Markéta Slavková
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            Abstrakt

            This paper discusses the popular musical phenomenon in the region of former Yugoslavia kno
            folk” – also referred to as “the music of the war.” In the late 1980s and early 1990s, “tu
            emerged from a postmodern mix of more readily accessible modern technologies (turbo – tech

            and the desire for “retraditionalization” (folk). Therefore, it could be seen as part of t
            “the invention of tradition” in the process of re-constructing a group’s identity. This pe
            of transformed tradition combined with modernity could also be traced back to the communis

            engineering and rapid urbanization, which, in fact, led to mass “ruralization” of the citi
            at the time. Noticeably more than any other music genre, “turbo-folk” has closely been lin

            expansion of nationalism, in which it played an important role in spreading the nationalis
            “satisfying” the emotions of the masses. I argue that “Turbo-folk,” as a “form of identity
            be closely related to the broader socio-political trends in the former Yugoslav countries.


            Klíčová slova
            former Yugoslavia; Serbia; turbo-folk; popular music; nationalism; identity formation


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