Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.52328/t.8.2.5
Nostalgia and aversion: music as a field of alternative culture of memory on socialist Yugoslavia
Vinko Korotaj Drača
; Archive of the Serbs in Croatia
Abstract
This paper presents a cultural history of reception of popular music artists from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Croatia in the period after the Yugoslav wars. Drawing on cultural theorist Stuart Hall's theses on popular culture as a site of contact and (re)coding between dominant and subaltern cultures, the concept of emotional communities by American historian Barbara Rosenwein, the work of several scholars who have engaged with the notion of nostalgia, and the definition of the “event” by French theorist Gilles Deleuze, the author examines the reception of two media-covered musical events in postwar Croatia: Đorđe Balašević's concerts in Pula, Osijek, and Zagreb in 2001 and 2002, and the Bijelo dugme concert in Zagreb in 2005.
Keywords
nostalgia; history of emotions; Đorđe Balašević; Bijelo dugme; contemporary history; popular culture
Hrčak ID:
337545
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Publication date:
6.11.2025.
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