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EXIT u Evropu: popularna muzika i politike identiteta u savremenoj Srbiji
Exit to Europe: Popular Music and Political Identity in Contemporary Serbia

Author(s): Marina N. Simić
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Zavod za proučavanje kulturnog razvitka
Keywords: popular music; political identity; Serbia; Exit; music festival;

Summary/Abstract: Marina Simic deconstructs the taken for granted paradigm by witch “two Serbias”, one rural, primitive and nationalistic, the other, urban, modern, and proeuropean reflect in two forms of music- turbo folk and rock. She analyses the discourses that lie behind this binary opposition showing that it is reductionistic and inadequate for understanding the problem of identity.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 116-117
  • Page Range: 98-122
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Serbian