Yugoslav avant-garde music, 1945-1991 / Laura Emmery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emmery, Laura V., Author.

Series:

Music since 1900.

Music since 1900

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Yugoslavia--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Avant-garde (Music)--Yugoslavia--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Music).

Electronic music--Yugoslavia--20th century--History and criticism.

Electronic music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Informed by fascinating interviews, photographs, and previously unexamined archival materials, this book reveals a compelling story of Yugoslav avant-garde and experimental music from 1945 until 1991, ending with the year when all artistic activities came to a sudden halt with the start of the Yugoslav wars. It examines the political, social, and cultural events that gave rise to the flourishing avant-garde scene in the country and follows the emergence and development of Yugoslav cultural programs in the postwar period that made the republic a magnet for cultural exchange, through to the sudden and violent dissolution of those programs with the collapse of the political state. The book is the first full-length book in English on the subject, and provides an indispensable, interdisciplinary resource that will contribute to the preservation of this legacy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Part I. First Avant-Gardes. Postwar Yugoslavia : Socialist Realism and Moderated Modernism ; Looking Back to Byzantium: A New Modernist Aesthetic ; Music Biennale Zagreb and the Musical Avant-Garde Revolution of the 1960s

Part II. Electronic Music. Early Electronic Music Explorations in Yugoslavia and the Formation of the Electronic Music Studio Radio Belgrade ; Pioneers of Electronic Music in Yugoslavia : A Case Study of Ludmila Frajt and Vladan Radovanovi ; Computerization of Electronic Music in Yugoslavia

Part III. New Avant-Gardes & Postmodernism. A Cultural Phenomenon : The Student Cultural Center in Belgrade ; New Avant-Gardes : Minimalism and Fluxus ; Postmodernism

Epilogue. 1991.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jun 2026).

ISBN:

1-009-76798-4

9781009768009

9781009767958

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access