Socially Engaged Music
In both socialist Yugoslavia and postwar Croatia some music reflected on and critiqued the present and envisaged a better tomorrow. Today such socially engaged music also rebuilds cultural ties across post-Yugoslav borders.
Podcast
Searching for Tito’s Punks*
In 1981, an obscure English punk band recorded a song whose cover by an Istrian punk band became famous in the former Yugoslavia. It took three decades and serendipity for the dots to connect.
Essay
Rockin’ Sarajevo
When the season’s first snow falls in Sarajevo, locals of a certain age recall the Olympics in 1984, when after a dry winter they worried whether the Games would even take place…
Podcast
Ex-YU Rock Center*
Rock music is a huge part of Yugoslavia’s legacy. Soon, there will be a place in Sarajevo bringing Yugoslav rock back to life.
Podcast
Lepa Brena: A Yugoslav Woman
Lepa Brena was the most popular and best-selling Yugoslav singer of the 1980s, Yugoslavia’s Madonna. She continues to personify Yugoslavia for many to this day.
Podcast
Rock’n’Retro (Podcast Episode 20)
…or New Yugoslavism in Contemporary Popular Music in Former Yugoslavia Parallel to Yugonostalgic enjoyment of Yugoslav-era music across the region, another related musical phenomenon emerged in the 1990s: original music glorifying Yugoslavia.
Podcast
Yugofuturist Rock’n’Roll: Petar Janjatović
Petar Janjatović, author of Ex-YU Rock Encyclopedia 1960-2015, discusses the endurance of Yugoslav rock and the political power of music.
Podcast
Martin Pogačar: Yugoslavia as Cultural Subversion
Martin Pogačar: Yugoslavia as Cultural Subversion The subversiveness of Yugoslav pop-culture and Yugoslavia’s digital afterlives. With Martin Pogačar (Institute of Culture and Memory Studies). Listen: “Martin Pogačar: Yugoslavia as Cultural Subversion” (Episode #6) Transcript: Martin Pogačar: Yugoslavia as Cultural Subversion (Episode #6) [JINGLE] PETER KORCHNAK: Welcome to Remembering Yugoslavia, a podcast where I, Peter Korchnak,
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Podcast
The New-New Life of Yugoslav Partisan Songs – Ana Hofman (Podcast Episode 2)
Ethnomusicologist Ana Hofman discusses the history and revival of Yugoslav Partisan songs, performed today by activist choirs around former Yugoslavia. Featuring Partisan songs by Zbor Praksa and KIC Pop Hor.
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