Shake, Rattle and Roll: Yugoslav Rock Music and the Poetics of Social Critique
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Bijelo Dugme
British Punk Movement
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Country Music
Country's Cultural Policy
Country's Dominant Culture
Country’s Cultural Policy
Country’s Dominant Culture
cultural praxis theory
Dolly Bell
Eastern European studies
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Evolutionary Merger
Militant Yugoslavism
political engagement in music
Popular Cultural Force
popular music studies
post-World War Ii
post-World War Ii Yugoslavia
Revolutionary Fusion
Rock Music
SFR Yugoslavia
socialist cultural criticism
Socio-cultural Critique
substantive
Substantive Turn
turn
War Ii
Young Man
youth
youth subcultures analysis
Yugoslav Cultural
Yugoslav Rock
Yugoslav Rock Music
Yugoslav Socialist
Yugoslav Socialist Community
Yugoslav socialist society critique
Yugoslav Society
Yugoslav Youth
Product details
- ISBN 9781138266995
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the late-1970s to the late-1980s rock music in Yugoslavia had an important social and political purpose of providing a popular cultural outlet for the unique forms of socio-cultural critique that engaged with the realities and problems of life in Yugoslav society. The three music movements that emerged in this period - New Wave, New Primitives, and New Partisans - employed the understanding of rock music as the 'music of commitment' (i.e. as socio-cultural praxis premised on committed social engagement) to articulate the critiques of the country's 'new socialist culture', with the purpose of helping to eliminate the disconnect between the ideal and the reality of socialist Yugoslavia. This book offers an analysis of the three music movements and their particular brand of 'poetics of the present' in order to explore the movements' specific forms of socio-cultural engagement with Yugoslavia's 'new socialist culture' and demonstrate that their cultural praxis was oriented towards the goal of realizing the genuine Yugoslav socialist-humanist community 'in the true measure of man'. Thus, the book's principal argument is that the driving force behind the music of commitment was, although critical, a fundamentally constructive disposition towards the progressive ideal of socialist Yugoslavia.
Dalibor Mišina is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario (Canada). His research incorporates the areas of sociological theory, media, popular culture, social transformations and change, and globalization.
