Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15176/vol55no104

“Give and Take”: Representations of the Post-socialist “New Bourgeoisie” in Music Videos

Ondřej Daniel orcid.org/0000-0002-2335-2717 ; Metropolitan University Prague

Abstract

This article explores the critical question of how music videos portrayed the “new bourgeoisie” in early post-socialist music videos. Additionally, it tackles two side issues: the depiction of criminal groups and foreign countries. Unlike the “new class”, post-socialist new bourgeoisie emerged as a class that was entirely economically defined by its own material interests. Several values attributable to post-socialist “new bourgeoisie” can be discerned from the music videos: an interplay of ambitions and hedonism, cosmopolitanism as well as of patriotic narratives, and the aspiration of the new bourgeoisie to assert its culturedness vis-à-vis the “intelligentsia”.

Keywords

class; post-socialism; new bourgeoisie; music videos; pop music

Hrčak ID:

202029

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/202029

Publication date:

21.6.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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