Youth as the Audience of Popular Culture in Plavi vjesnik (1954–1973) Cover Image

Mladi kao publika popularne kulture u Plavome vjesniku (1954. – 1973.)
Youth as the Audience of Popular Culture in Plavi vjesnik (1954–1973)

Author(s): Petra Požgaj
Subject(s): Cultural history, Media studies, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Hrvatsko etnološko društvo
Keywords: Plavi vjesnik; youth; popular culture; youth magazine; Yugoslavia; socialism;

Summary/Abstract: This paper offers an analysis of the youth magazine Plavi vjesnik (1954–1973) and a number of discussions on the topic of youth and popular culture published at the same time. By doing so, it aims to contribute to the study of the Yugoslav culture that emerged in the post-WWII period not only by mapping a previously unresearched field, but also by underlining the exceptional significance of the field of the popular and the category of youth for the broader issue of the Yugoslav socialist project. Based on an examination of specific articulations of the figure of youth and the audience of popular culture, this paper shows that youth came to function as the privileged space for negotiating the tensions that characterized the relationship between the Yugoslav vision of modernity and the developing field of the popular.

  • Issue Year: 50/2020
  • Issue No: 43
  • Page Range: 143-160
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Croatian