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“DEATH TO FASCISM ISN’T IN THE CATECHISM”: LEGACIES OF SOCIALISM IN CROATIAN POPULAR MUSIC AFTER THE FALL OF YUGOSLAVIA

Catherine Baker orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-3991-7946 ; Modern Languages, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK


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Abstract

This paper discusses both textual and structural legacies of socialism in Croatian popular music since the collapse of socialism and Yugoslavia. Yugoslav socialism struggled to reconcile socialist consciousness and capitalist consumerism, forcing the producers of popular culture to make sense of the political field that surrounded
them and put ideology into practice. The structural conditions of cultural production under socialism, the use of socialist iconography and memory as resources in post-socialist popular music and the negation of the socialist experience by patriotic musicians reflect three layers of socialist legacy in contemporary Croatian popular culture.

Keywords

socialism; postsocialism; popular culture; popular music; Croatia; memory

Hrčak ID:

53555

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/53555

Publication date:

15.6.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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