The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans

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.

Catherine Baker is Reader in 20th Century History at the University of Hull.

List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Thinking Politically with Popular Music of the Balkans Part 1: Region and 'the Balkans' in Practice 1 The Emergence of the World Music Concept in the Balkans: Early and More Recent Steps 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 2: 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 3: 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 3: 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 4: Margins of National Identity 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 5: 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 6: 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