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Поп песма: епистоларна форма популарне културе
The Pop Song: The Epistolary Form of Popular Culture

Author(s): Bojan Žikić
Subject(s): Anthropology, Music, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Београду
Keywords: pop song; popular music; popular culture; anthropology; cultural communication;

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the basic form of contemporary popular music, which is considered from a viewpoint that conceptualizes popular culture as a form of supracultural communication. This perspective differs from earlier anthropological interest in music as, above all, grounded in some form of locality, supposedly traditional and authentic, where in it tries to focus this interest on the meaning of the songs and their reception.

  • Issue Year: 7/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 487-508
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Serbian