"Death to fascism isn't in the catechism": Legacies of socialism in Croatian popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia

Baker, Catherine

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.

Citation

Baker, C. (2010). "Death to fascism isn't in the catechism": Legacies of socialism in Croatian popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia. Narodna umjetnost: Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Research, 47(1), 163-183

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 29, 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Deposit Date: Dec 22, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 20, 2021
• Journal: Narodna Umjetnost
• Print ISSN: 0547-2504
• Electronic ISSN: 1848-865X
• Publisher: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku/Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 163-183
• Keywords: Socialism; Postsocialism; Popular culture; Popular music; Croatia; Memory
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3565355
• Publisher URL: https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=81655