After Zero Hour: States as “Custodians of Universal Human Culture,” or “Guardians of Advanced Art”
After Zero Hour: States as “Custodians of Universal Human Culture,” or “Guardians of Advanced Art”

Summary/Abstract: The emergence of radically new, avant-garde movements in German music and throughout Western Europe after WW2 has often been seen as expressing a strivings to create on a tabula rasa, in order to create distance from the horrors of the recent past. In the countries of the communist bloc, the imposed ideology of socialist realism also created a sharp break, similar to that in the West, except that Zero Hour was conceived in quite a diferent fashion, as a move in the opposite direction from Western modernism. Te case of post-war music in Yugoslavia is examined under the light of the fact that the country did not belong to either bloc.

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