Popular music in ex-Yugoslavia between global participation and provincial seclusion

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Bijelo dugme, one of the most commercially successful as well as artistically refined groups of the late seventies, was known as the founder of a musical style called 'Yugo-Rock' with numerous references to Balkan 'melos'. Bijelo dugme was also known as a pro-Yugoslav group which correctly diagnosed the political situation during the mid eighties and put their opinions into numerous songs. Multinational groups fell apart and the federal music events lost their importance. The multicultural soundscape broke down into a number of monocultural soundscapes with stronger or weaker references to the global musical trends. Musicians had to adjust to the new situation. Some of them changed their profession, some chose exile, so that especially in London there is a strong community of musical emigrants from all parts of ex-Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav music industry was never centralized as in other socialistic countries.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelGlobal Repertoires : Popular Music Within and Beyond the Transnational Music Industry
HerausgeberAndeas Gebesmair, Alfred Smudits
Anzahl der Seiten16
ErscheinungsortLondon
VerlagTaylor and Francis Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum28.01.2002
Seiten73-88
ISBN (Print)9780754605263, 9781138275201
ISBN (elektronisch)9781315093543
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 28.01.2002
Extern publiziertJa