ЧИТАЊЕ ПОПУЛАРНЕ КУЛТУРЕ: музичке сцене у идеолошком промету
Readings in Popular Culture: Musical Scenes in Ideological Turnover

Author(s): Miroslava Lukić Krstanović
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Music
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: popular culture; theory; ethnology; public word; ideology
Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes popular culture within scientific and public discourses. The scientific question of a popular culture is important, because this is the phenomenon that plays an important role in social practice, determining life-style and power relations; also, it serves as a medium in ideological turnovers and could be a narrative market in esthetic and ethnic appraisal. An interpretation of popular culture is a subject of considerable theoretical debate (Edgar Morin, Michel Maffesoli, Dick Hebdige, Rolan Bart, Ines Prica, Ivan Kovačević, Ivan Čolović, etc). The second part of the paper deals with popular music within public discourse, and reads it as a social text. Various statements, attitudes, debates and critiques of musical scenes present a social text through which we can asses molding of cultural patterns. Based on the analysis of media contents in 2000-2005, it is possible to establish paradigmatic series in decoding the messages: popular, distinctive, distance; popular, populist, national; popular, traditional, commercial; popular, bureaucratic, market. In the public sphere, popular music is a subject of contradiction. In the past decade, Serbian musical scene was more of an ideological than a cultural phenomenon. Within the interest fields of privileged and subordinated social and political formations, in between idealization and indoctrination, the creation of popular music suffered from ideology.

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