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Sounds of the Borderland - Popular Music, War and Nationalism in Croatia since 1991 (Paperback)
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Sounds of the Borderland - Popular Music, War and Nationalism in Croatia since 1991 (Paperback)
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Sounds of the Borderland is the first book-length study of how
popular music became a medium for political communication and
contested identification during and after Croatia's war of
independence from Yugoslavia. It extends existing cultural studies
literature on music, politics and the state, which has largely been
grounded in Western European and North American political systems.
It also responds to an emerging fascination with the culture and
politics of contemporary south-east Europe, expanding scholarship
on the post-Yugoslav conflicts by going on to encompass significant
social and political changes into the present day. The outbreak of
war in 1991 saw almost every professional musician in Croatia take
part in a wave of patriotic music-making and the powerful state
television system strive to bring popular music under its control.
As the political imperative shifted from securing national survival
to consolidating a homogenous nation-state, the music industry
responded with several strategies for creating a national popular
music, producing messages about the nation and, in the ongoing
debates over the origins of the folk music that inspired many
songs, a way to define the nation by expressing what Croatia was
not. The war on ethnic ambiguity which cut through individuals'
social and creative lives played out across the airwaves, sales
racks and gossip columns of a small country that imagined itself a
historical and cultural borderland. These explicit and implicit
narratives of nationhood connect many political phases: the months
of fiercest fighting, the stabilised front, the uneasy post-war
years when the symbolic frontline region of eastern Slavonia had
still not returned to Croatian sovereignty, the euphoria and
instability after the end of the Tudjman regime in 2000, and
Croatia's fraught journey towards the European Union. Baker's book
provides valuable insight into the role of music in a wartime and
post-conflict society and will be essential reading for researchers
and students interested in south-east Europe or the transformation
of entertainment during and after conflict.
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