Summary
Marko Pogačar: Jugoton Gori
This "musical diary", as author Marko Pogačar calls it, is actually a small history of an epic period of the music scene in Yugoslavia. It was a period when new forces were awakening, new horizons, new vistas, and all that violent creative energy was pouring into music. At that time, Yugoslav bands were worthy of attention on the European level as well, and in this book you will see how they shaped the life of the poet, who was born during the zenith of this powerful music industry. Marko Pogačar has been an indispensable part of the regional poetry scene for some time. Here, with his writing talent, he interprets magnificent musical phenomena from the eighties (and later) years of the last century. Through the author's reflections on the prominent songs of ex-YU bands (Azra, Haustor, EKV, Partibrejkersi, Idoli, Pekinška patka, KUD Idijoti, Arsen Dedić, Disciplina škipe, Pankrti and many others...) the time, society and ideology that no longer exist are explained in an insightful and intelligent way. Jugoton was really burning then, and Pogačar revives that flame for you with this book.
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