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Introduction: Thinking Politically with Popular Music of the Balkans (2024)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2024). Introduction: Thinking Politically with Popular Music of the Balkans. In C. Baker (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (1-27). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328162-1

The introduction surveys the sociopolitical contexts surrounding historic and contemporary popular music in the Balkans. It explains the complexities of ‘popular music’ and other related terms in defining the field of study, including the problems of... Read More about Introduction: Thinking Politically with Popular Music of the Balkans.

What is this ‘Balkan’ in Balkan Popular Culture?: Stuart Hall’s Sociology of Popular Culture, Identity and Race through Analogy and Connection (2024)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2024). What is this ‘Balkan’ in Balkan Popular Culture?: Stuart Hall’s Sociology of Popular Culture, Identity and Race through Analogy and Connection. In C. Baker (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (500-512). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328162-39

This chapter situates ‘Balkan’ popular music within a global politics of identity and difference and gives an example of how to use social and cultural theory to develop a research agenda, by reviewing how scholars of popular culture in the region ha... Read More about What is this ‘Balkan’ in Balkan Popular Culture?: Stuart Hall’s Sociology of Popular Culture, Identity and Race through Analogy and Connection.