The Peasant Ghetto: Serbian Hip-Hop Revisits the Countryside












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            * Irena Šetnevska
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            Abstrakt

            This paper traces the development of the Serbian hip-hop scene in its ever-changing social
            from the late socialist 1980s, through the wartime 1990s, to the transitional 2000s, focus
            conceptualizations of the notion of the ghetto and different ways in which hip-hop reflect

            urban divide in Serbian society. From rapping in rural dialects to satirically praising na
            Serbian rappers have made quite a unique contribution to the hip-hop “Internationale” as a
            with distinct origins in the New York City neighborhood of the South Bronx. Their concept 

            ghetto (seljački geto) i s, a t the same time, a form of social commentary on the state of
            communities in the country and a diagnosis of present-day Serbia as a closed society with 

            of international isolation following the Yugoslav wars and a peripheral and deprivileged p
            the modern global world order. On the other hand, the substantial interactions and mutual 
            between the Serbian hip-hop and turbo-folk scenes emphasized in this paper are another ind

            problematic distinction between urban and rural in the Serbian cultural context, at least 
            entertainment and popular music. The relationship between these two genres becomes even mo
            hip-hop is observed as a distinct cultural foreign import with an indisputable urban backg

            folk is understood as the sole home-grown form of popular music in Serbia with now-remote 

            Klíčová slova

            hip-hop; Serbia; ghetto; urban-rural divide; turbo-folk

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