The book offers a multifaced picture of the personal experiences of the socialist ideology of gender equality, focusing on the complex relations among personal, interpersonal and political levels in socialism. It shows the interplay between ideology, representational and social practices at the level of the everyday life strategies, challenging the strong division between ideology and practice in socialist societies present in scholarly narratives. Applying the oral history method during the field research and both the concept of experience in feminist epistemology, and the ethnomusicological concept of narrative musical ethnography, book investigates the female singers’ personal accounts on socialism. Stage performances were examined in the light of the socialist official culture policy and agendas of modernization and emancipation, as cultural practices which produced a new pattern in the representation of gender in the light of the socialist identity politics.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34592557
The scientific monograph discusses the possibilities of using socialist and Yugoslav heritage in defending autonomous and politically relevant standpoints, and in negotiating the belonging to Europe, in the area of the former Yugoslavia. It pays particular attention to attempts to negotiate certain aspects of the socialist past as cultural heritage in the former Yugoslav societies.
COBISS.SI-ID: 190833420
Imagining, interpreting and appropriating the past in the digital age is a complex and manifold set of practices and processes which increasingly employ audio-visual components (sound, image, video) in addition to classical textual narrativisations. Particularly in the newly established post-socialist states, which have experienced a thorough revision—sometimes outright annihilation—of their socialist pasts, narrativisations of the past in digital media ecology feature prominently. One of the many means available to re-appropriate and repurpose the past is the medium of music blogging which employs textual comments, images, sounds, videos to narrate and preserve the disappearing facets of Yugoslav popular culture. In this chapter the author interrogates the potential of such blogging for preserving / archiving popular music from the former Yugoslavia. To that end the author analyses two blogs in terms of content management and implications for mediation of memories.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34882349