The politics of performance : transnationalism and its limits in former Yugoslav popular music, 1999-2004

Baker, Catherine

Abstract

This paper examines transnational relations between the Yugoslav successor states from the point of view of popular music, and demonstrates how transnational musical figures (such as Djordje Balasevic, Momcilo Bajagic-Bajaga and Ceca Raznatovic) are interpreted as symbolic reference points in national ethnopolitical discourse in the process of identity construction. Another symbolic function is served by Serbian turbofolk artists, who in Croatia serve as a cultural resource to distance oneself from a musical genre associated by many urban Croats with the ruralization (and Herzegovinization) of Croatian city space. In addition, value judgements associated with both Serbian and Croatian newly composed folk music provide an insight into the transnational negotiation of conflicting identities in the ex-Yugoslav context. Ultimately the paper shows how the ethnonational boundaries established by nationalizing ideologies created separate cultural spaces which themselves have been transnationalized after Yugoslavia’s disintegration.

Citation

Baker, C. (2006). The politics of performance : transnationalism and its limits in former Yugoslav popular music, 1999-2004. Ethnopolitics, 5(3), 275-293. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449050600911075

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2006-09
• Deposit Date: Jun 19, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 23, 2017
• Journal: Ethnopolitics
• Print ISSN: 1744-9057
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 275-293
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449050600911075
• Keywords: Croatia, Nationalism, Popular music, Serbia, Transnationalism
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/473722
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449050600911075
• Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Ethnopolitics on 03/11/06, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17449050600911075
• Contract Date: Nov 23, 2017