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Colours of the New Face of Serbia: National Symbols and Popular Music
Colours of the New Face of Serbia: National Symbols and Popular Music

Author(s): Marijana Mitrović
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: nationalism; popular music; new face of Serbia; female media figure; subaltern; mediated selves

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I address nationalist iconography in Serbian popular music, especially the role of women as the symbols of nation building. Case in point is the victory of Serbian representative Marija Serifovic in Eurovision Song Contest in 2007. I analyze the way power struggle and strategic use of the differences are embodied and embedded through a media figure of Marija Serifovic in the process of showing the “new face of Serbia”.

  • Issue Year: LVII/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 8-18
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English