The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Baker, Catherine.

Series:

• Routledge Music Handbooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Popular music--Political aspects--Balkan Peninsula.
• Popular music--Social aspects--Balkan Peninsula.
• Popular music--Balkan Peninsula--History and criticism.
• Music and race--Balkan Peninsula--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (662 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: thinking politically with popular music of the Balkans
• Part I Region and 'the Balkans' in practice
• 1 The emergence of the world music concept in the Balkans: early and more recent steps
• 2 Lăutari, music-making, and social practices of live performance in southern Romania
• 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 II 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 III 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 IV 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 V Margins of national belonging
• 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 VI 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 VII 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.

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Other Format:

Print version: Baker, Catherine The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans

ISBN:

9781040039946

OCLC:

1438668014