Summary
Ana Petrov: Yugoslav music without Yugoslavia
Did and how Yugoslav popular music outlived the country in which it was created and did it experience its second post-Yugoslav life without Yugoslavia? Can we talk about political reconciliation through music, or does music confirm that the post-Yugoslav divisions are real? The aim of the book is to point out the political implications of enjoying concerts in Belgrade after the breakup of Yugoslavia. A special focus is on the question of how (seemingly neutral) concepts of love are networked in the memory of the Yugoslav past, and how in some cases they are transformed into nostalgia and Yugoslav nostalgia, while in others they are integrated into discourses about poetry as a universal language, or, on the contrary, help to further construct borders in the post-Yugoslav space.
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