Beschreibung:
Dalibor Mišina is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario (Canada). His research incorporates the areas of sociological theory, media, popular culture, social transformations and change, and globalization.
From the late-1970s to the late-1980s rock music in Yugoslavia had the important social and political purpose of providing a popular cultural outlet for the unique forms of socio-cultural critique that engaged with the realities and problems of life in Yugoslav society. This book offers an analysis of three musical movements that emerged in this crucial period and argues that the driving force behind the music demonstrates a fundamentally constructive disposition towards the progressive ideal of socialist Yugoslavia.
General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 SFR Yugoslavia: The Culture of Politics/The Politics of Culture; Chapter 2 Yugoslavia, Culture, and Popular Culture: The Discoveries of Youth and Rock'n'roll; Chapter 3 The Substantive Turn: A History, Philosophy and Praxis of Yugoslav Rock'n'roll; Chapter 4 New Wave: "In the Rhythm of the Compressor"; Chapter 5 New Primitives: "Anarchy All Over BašÄaršija"; Chapter 6 New Partisans: "Spit and Sing, My Yugoslavia"; Epilogue;