The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008

Baker, Catherine

Abstract

© 2012 Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved. An essay by Dubravka Ugrešic tells the story of the singer "Neda U.," who "came from Sarajevo, and her songwriter, N., [who] came from Zagreb." Neda "became⋯ a Serb" during the war in Croatia when the Yugoslav National Army (jna) and Croatian Serb rebels opposed Croatia's secession from Yugoslavia. Neda's music was no longer played once war broke out, but a young Croatian singer re-recorded her hits "to make N.'s music Croatian again."1 The singer, Neda Ukraden, had performed some of the 1980s' most famous Yugoslav pop songs. The songwriter, Dorde Novkovic, had composed extensively for Ukraden and many other singers based inside and outside Croatia. Novkovic would be integrated into the restructuring of Croatian culture, entertainment, and media initiated by Croatia's nationalist government during and after the fall of Yugoslavia. Ukraden, who moved from Sarajevo to Belgrade when war broke out in Bosnia-Herzegovina in April 1992, would not.

Citation

Baker, C. (2012). The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008. In S. Fast, & K. Pegley (Eds.), Music, Politics, and Violence (60-82). Wesleyan University Press

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2012
• Deposit Date: Dec 22, 2020
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Pages: 60-82
• Book Title: Music, Politics, and Violence
• Chapter Number: 2
• ISBN: 9780819573384; 9780819573377
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3565349