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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emmery, Laura V., Author.

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.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Drawing on fascinating interviews, photographs, and previously unexamined archival materials, this book reveals the compelling story of the Yugoslav avant-garde and experimental music scene and its connections to other modernist movements from 1945 until 1991, when artistic activities came to a sudden halt with the start of the Yugoslav wars"-- Provided by publisher.

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 Radovanović ; 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.

ISBN:

1-009-76798-4