The chapter in the edited volume “Socializam na klupi” (Socialism in the Back Row) discusses music censorship in former Yugoslavia, based on analysis of the so-called “newly-composed” folk music (ethno-pop). It focuses on practices of self-censorship in the light of politics of music genres, especially issues of “kitsch” and “trash”, i.e., Commissions on Trash, which were established at the beginning of the 1970s.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36379693
The monograph presents enormous growth of festivals in past few decades and is aimed in analysis of places of their origin and organization. The author mainly analyses festivals, especially music festivals, in Slovenia, in the final part of the book he as well examines some festivals from the region of former Yugoslavia, especially those festivals which are related to sites and actors from former common Yugoslav popular music scene.
COBISS.SI-ID: 270847744
The author critically examines usability of the notion of authenticity in studies of music, and based on examples from Slovenia and former Yugoslavia (especially music of the Roma), he concludes that identification processes always include simultaneous inclusion and exclusion. Therefore, any phenomenon related to communication in music, is at the same time factor of inclusion and exclusion of individuals and human groups. When we add false perception in linking music and community, we can only deduce that authenticity, as theoretical term, is worthless and without any epistemological meaning.
COBISS.SI-ID: 51384162