The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans

Herausgeber: Baker, Catherine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032357157
• ISBN-10: 1032357150
• Artikelnr.: 70147097

Autorenporträt

Catherine Baker is Reader in 20th Century History at the University of Hull.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Thinking Politically with Popular Music of the Balkans
Part 1: Region and 'the Balkans' in Practice
1 The Emergence of the World Music Concept in the Balkans: Early and More
Recent Steps
3 Politics, Activism, and Romani Music: Interpreting Trends in Serbia,
North Macedonia and Bulgaria
4 Electronic Dance Music Festivals in Romania: a Case of Reversed Balkanism
5 The Balkans in the Eurovision Song Contest
Part 2: Reviving and Revising Histories
6 Reviving Nineteenth-Century Wallachian and Moldavian Urban Music
7 Bosnian Discography Before World War I: Recording Artists, Repertoire and
Politics
8 The Development and Institutionalization of Albanian Music During the
Communist Period
9 'Please, Mile, Don't Sing Anything Political': Turbo-Folk, Politics and
the Restoration of Capitalism in Serbia
10 The Artistic Units of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina
(ARBiH), Popular Patriotic Music Production and the Question of National
Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina During the War from 1992 to 1995
11 The Politics of Performance and Popular Music in Turkey
12 Songs After Genocide: Music of Hatred and Triumphalism
Part 3: Defining 'the Popular'
13 Popular Music and the 'Mass Culture' of Socialist Yugoslavia in the Eyes
of Critics and Theorists
14 To traghoúdhi tou nekroú adelfoú: Mikis Theodorakis' Autoethnographic
and Political Perspectives in a Contemporary Greek Laiki Tragedy
15 Groovy Aesthetics, Intercultural Perspectives, and the Rise of Ethnojazz
in Bulgaria
16 The Sound of Distinction: Social Class and Political Orientations as
Predictors of Music Taste in Croatia
17 Popular Culture and Pandemic Politics: Musically Mitigating COVID-19 in
2020 Bulgaria
Part 3: Political Economies and Political Aesthetics
18 Women and Gender in the Early Record Industry in Former Yugoslavia:
Snapshots of Singers, a Composer, Industrial Manpower, and Gendered Humour
19 The Musical Film Genre in Romanian Cinema: From Melodramatic Socialism
to Postmodern Irony
20 In Search of National Style: Yugoslav Popular Music Between the Balkans
and the Mediterranean
21 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Korea?: Laibach and the Poetics of
Politics
22 White Power Music and Antifascist Rap: Anti-System Music in Greece
During the 2009-21 Crises
23 Popular Culture or Resistance?: Rap and Politics in Turkey Since the
1990s
Part 4: Margins of National Identity
24 The Neopontic Music of Greece: Traditions of Modernity and the
A/politics of Identity
25 Just Mediterranean, Please: Croatian Neoklapa Music and National
(Re)Positioning
26 Between the Virtual and the Make-Believe: Anthems, Bells, and a
Performance for Liberland Along the Croatian and Serbian Danube
27 Queering Bulgarian Pop-Folk: Hybridity, Gaga Feminism, and
Defamiliarization in Chalga
28 Understanding Gender and Sexuality in Sevdah as a Popular Genre
Part 5: Globalizing Postcoloniality and Race
29 Black Popular Musics in Yugoslavia
30 'The Blacks of Yugoslavia': Racialization, Resistance, and Kosova's 'MTV
Generation'
31 Br/otherhood and Dis/unity: Racial Differentiations Across the Former
Yugoslav Region and Serbian Diaspora Communities in Serbia's Two Major
Music Festivals
32 What is this 'Balkan' in Balkan Popular Culture?: Stuart Hall's
Sociology of Popular Culture, Identity and Race through Analogy and
Connection
33 From AfroGreeks to the Black Mediterranean: De/facing Whiteness in the
Rap of Negros tou Moria
Part 6: New Technologies and Transformations
34 Stacking Nightingales, Male Tears, and Albums of the Year: How the
Balkans and Other Scales of Domestic Hip-Hop Are Crafted
35 'Popularity' in the YouTube Era: an Anthropological Analysis of Music
Trending on Serbian YouTube and IDJTV
36 From Turbo Music to Turbo Politics: Pop-Folk and Anti-Establishment
Politics in Bulgaria
37 'Dajem ti srce, zemljo moja': Patriotic Music and National Unity in
Croatia in the Aftermath of the 2020 Petrinja Earthquake
38 'And Then We Sang': Affective Communities and Russian/EU Cultural
Diplomacy in Moldova's Victory Day and Europe Day, 2022
39 Queer Yugosphere: Queer Audiences and Popular Music in the Post-Yugoslav
Space
Index