The book examines the reactualization of partisan songs in post-Yugoslav Slovenia with an emphasis on this music production as "inappropriate" heritage. In researching the “new lives" of partisan songs, the book focuses on the female choir Kombinat, an emblematic example of thinking about the partisan art in Slovenia today. Just a part of Kombinat repertoire, partisan songs are discursively, sonically, spatially, ideologically and symbolically reloaded, challenging thus the various boundaries in thinking about this legacy in Slovenian context. Using theoretical framework of affect theory, and particularly theories of music materialism and sonic affect, the book provides an alternative perspective to our understanding of political capacity of socialist music legacy. It addresses the main issue of referencing musical past as a way of political engagement, and revitalization and reactualization of socialist ideas and values in the current moment of global transition.
COBISS.SI-ID: 276198144
The author discusses digital practices of preserving and representing multicultural heritage, first against the backdrop of dominant, official and often (nationally) exclusivist practices of “doing heritage”. The former are understood as tools for preserving, developing and embedding cultural heritage in wider experiential spaces, while the latter often serve as the tool for homogenisation and sanitisation of na- tional cultural and social spaces. To do this, the author focuses on presences and absences of WWII, socialist Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav migrant heritages in contemporary Slovenian digital spaces, i.e. how digital media are used to present and preserve these variegated heritages. In order to interrogate the practices and strategies of defining and managing heritage in the digital media environment, the author discusses several vernacular interventions as re-presences of the Yugoslav past. With respect to the specificities of the techno-cultural environment in which the topic “lives”, the author introduces the concept of “co-historicity” to denote the ways affective media practices facilitate contemporaneous “be- ing” in different, individualised, mediated and mediatised re-presences of the past.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36779821
The Serbian Orthodox community in the Bela Krajina region in southern Slovenia, which presently con- sists of four villages (Bojanci, Miliči, Marindol and Paunoviči), is considered the northernmost “island” of the Serbian Orthodox population and has traditionally been approached through the ideological lenses of locality, authenticity (or lack of thereof ), isolation and demarcation from other groups in Bela Krajina. As a consequence, the dominant discourses (both academic and popular) about this community are those that highlight and try to reconstruct “pure” cultural and linguistic traits, or those that lament over their inevitable disappearance. Such a binary perspective precludes any possibility of recognizing the dynamics in both everyday cultural patterns and in heritage negotiation in and around this community. This article highlights heritage as an experience utilized by diverse actors in making sense of their pre- sent and future. As such it is necessarily dynamic, dialogical, multi-voiced, and contested.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36779565
The article discusses the tensions and ambiguities and the political implications of the fact that what is today negotiated as industrial heritage is still part of lived experience of several generations of men and women in the former Yugoslavia. It argues that the issues of representation of industrial labor essentially have to do with the place dedicated to working communities, their members, and their voices and affects in museum narratives.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35814957
By analyzing language use related to food, the author attempts to demonstrate that despite the all- encompassing nationalist identity, the people living in Central European border areas in the late nine- teenth and early twentieth century still shared in their everyday lives the same transnational rhetoric for both self-identification and recognition of others. Using a manuscript collection of recipes and other household instructions for housewives, where two and sometimes even three languages are used in a single paragraph, the author argues that this multicultural way of remembering and sharing profes- sional expertise was the usual practice of everyday communication until the end of the Second World War, when the creation of socialist Yugoslavia led to the formation of three newly politicized nationali- ties / ethnicities, two religious identities and (after 1945) one exclusive ideology that produced a new set of practices of cohabitation and differentiation.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36786477