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I Go Yougo, un voyage musical en Yougoslavie: Folk, néofolk et turbofolk, la politisation des musiques traditionnelles (1/4) Avec Simon Rico, première étape de notre voyage musical dans ce pays qui n'existe plus que dans les mémoires et les livres d'histoires : du folk fédérateur aux synthétiseurs et boites à rythmes nationalistes du turbofolk.

I Go Yougo, un voyage musical en Yougoslavie: Folk, néofolk et turbofolk, la politisation des musiques traditionnelles (1/4)

Comme le chante Lepa Brena : « Živela Jugoslavija », Que vive la Yougoslavie! Remember the Nineties? Turbo-Folk as the Vanishing Mediator of Nationalism. This essay discusses the music style of turbo-folk as the vanishing mediator between two kinds of nationalism in Serbia: anti-Yugoslav nationalism and pan-Balkan regionalist nationalism.

Remember the Nineties? Turbo-Folk as the Vanishing Mediator of Nationalism

Using Slavoj Žižek's account of the concept of the vanishing mediator, I suggest that the nationalism of turbo-folk created the ground for its benevolent successor of “apolitical” pop. Far from being merely a phase in the longer trajectory of the evolution of music, turbo-folk is the condition that made possible the apolitical transnational contemporary pop folk. The nationalism of turbo-folk was a necessary mediator, and its very nationalist “excess” established the “normal” popular music today. Revolutionary road: how activist choirs in the Balkans are reviving partisan songs — The Calvert Journal. Back in 2005, southeastern Europe got its first LGBT choir.

Revolutionary road: how activist choirs in the Balkans are reviving partisan songs — The Calvert Journal

Le Zbor (the name is a wordplay on lesbian and zbor, the Serbo-Croatian word for choir), wanted to raise awareness about the issues facing Croatia's LGBT community. Over the past 11 years the choir has outgrown its initial ambitions. Today, girls in red jumpsuits — Le Zbor's visual trademark — define themselves as a “lesbian-feminist-activist-antifascist” choir, and can be seen at protests and anti-fascist marches, but also in clubs and at festivals.

Related. Amanda Rivkin Archive. Turbofolk: pop y diversidad sexual en los Balcanes. Turbofolk: how Serbia’s weird and wonderful pop music came in from the cold — The Calvert Journal. We don’t always give pop music the analytical attention it merits.

Turbofolk: how Serbia’s weird and wonderful pop music came in from the cold — The Calvert Journal

This is especially true when the music in question comes from non-Western countries and incorporates folk elements. After all, this kind of dancefloor-filler presents a higher access barrier for Western audiences and brings with it associations of kitsch, Eurovision and backward rural hinterlands untouched by wifi and non-binary gender classifications. Yet here hidden treasures lie. Turbofolk: pop y diversidad sexual en los Balcanes. Techno, turbo folk et survie en temps de guerre - VICE. Au cours de ces 25 dernières années, le photographe serbe Srđan Veljović a documenté les changements sociaux qui ont eu lieu en Serbie.

Techno, turbo folk et survie en temps de guerre - VICE

Il a ainsi notamment illustré les tristes étés de la classe ouvrière passés dans les HLM du quartier de New Belgrade, les hommages aux victimes du massacre de Srebrenica ou encore l'apogée du groupe de rap serbe Sunshine. Could We Critically Redeem Turbo-folk and Should We Even Try? Turbo Folk - Phénomène made in Serbia. Maja Marijana - Crni panter - Maja Marijana - Kazanova - Viki - Koka kola, marlboro, suzuki (SPOT) Viki - Koka kola, marlboro, suzuki (SPOT)

Jelena Karleusa - Gili, gili. Lepa Brena - Nema leka apoteka. Lepa Brena - Evo moga delije - (Spot) Du bruit pour débiles - VICE. Ethnic cleansing's balladeers get their marching orders. IT IS the music of war.

Ethnic cleansing's balladeers get their marching orders

On stage, the Serbian megastar Ceca sways before an enthusiastic crowd of Belgrade youths. Her normally heavily teased hair is pulled back and she is wearing a pink push-up bra, black Lycra leggings and heavy make-up. The image may be Madonna, but the sound is Beverly Hillbillies. <i>Turbo-Folk</i> as the Agent of Empire: On Discourses of Identity and Difference in Popular Culture. “To put it simply, turbo-folk rules!”

<i>Turbo-Folk</i> as the Agent of Empire: On Discourses of Identity and Difference in Popular Culture

—Mira Škorić, singer Turbo-Folk is a cultural phenomenon which finds itself at the crossroads of numerous academic disciplines (from which I indiscriminately borrow for the purposes of this article), including musicology, anthropology, sociology, literary, media and urban studies, political science, history, and philosophy. What makes it such an intriguing object of study, however, is its absence from the maps of official academic “geography”: turbo-folk has no academic history, theory, curricula, conservatories, institutes and archives, museum exhibits or public collections.

Although recognized as a highly influential and most widespread cultural model in Serbia, it is persistently kept at the fringes of academic concerns. In Belgrade: NATO Missiles Strike a Center of State-Linked TV and Radio. Join a Discussion on the Conflict in Kosovo ELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- NATO conducted its first airstrikes against Yugoslav television and radio stations early Wednesday morning, firing three cruise missiles at a 20-story office building and putting three channels off the air.

In Belgrade: NATO Missiles Strike a Center of State-Linked TV and Radio

The building was burning on the top and bottom floors, indicating that at least two of the missiles hit their target. Jasmin Jusic i Goga Sekulic - Vuce Lopove. 330 1449 1 PB. Turbo-folk music is the sound of Serbia feeling sorry for itself. BELGRADE, Serbia — The women parade across the stage, stiletto heels clacking as they croon songs of love and loss – ballads of village girls and heroic battles, of unrequited love and faithless men.

Turbo-folk music is the sound of Serbia feeling sorry for itself

"Wherever I go, I always end up in the same place," goes the final medley, sung by a squadron of buxom, scantily-clad women to the accompaniment of accordions and brass. "Who can tear Kosovo away from my soul? " Gusle - Lilo. Gusle — Wikipédia La gusle ou guzla (albanais : lahuta, serbo-croate : gusle/гусле, prononciation ɡūslɛ) est un instrument monocorde à corde frottée des Alpes dinariques.

gusle - Lilo

Gusle - Topic - YouTube The gusle, Albanian: lahuta, Bulgarian: гусла is a single-stringed musical instrument traditionally used in the Dinarides region of the Southeastern Europe. ... www.youtube.com/channel/UCwxVLjShVgCQV2bkCylEXdg. Ko je reko baja nece doci? Uzivo Baja Mali Knindža Баја Мали Книнџа HQ. Turbo Folk Politics. The arrest of Serbia’s biggest pop star illustrates the marriage of turbo folk and the criminal elite. by Goran Tarlac Svetlana ‘Ceca’ Raznatovic BELGRADE, Serbia and Montenegro–When the attractive and voluptuous Serbian folk singer Svetlana „Ceca“ Raznatovic–Belgrade’s biggest pop star–was arrested in connection with the 12 March assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, the public was indeed shocked. Ceca’s arrest, the result of her close ties with the prime suspects in Djindjic’’ murder, has brought to light the influential political role her genre of music, turbo folk, played in Serbia during the Slobodan Milosevic regime and beyond.

Ceca, the widow of Zeljko „Arkan“ Raznatovic–a notorious paramilitary leader who was murdered in January 2000–was no stranger to the underworld, but the love songs she sang, as opposed to the threateningly nationalist lyrics of other folk singers, were the hottest stuff on the Serbian music scene. Megalomania is another major characteristic. Roki Vulovic - Panteri / Mauzer ,English Lyrics. Oj Alija, Aljo! Bojna Čavoglave. Jura Stublić - E moj druže Beogradski. Sve Dzamije u Oblake Lete. SERBIA STRONG! The concept of turbofolk in Croatia. Yougoslavie "Suicide d'une nation européenne" 1. Ex-Yougoslavie, la route des nouvelles républiques. Behance. Pjesma o Mauzeru. Queer As Turbofolk (Part I): “Eastern Europe Is Homophobic” Talk about Ceca and Arkan, the widow and the warlord, their televised wedding and her house arrest for illegal arms possession and massive embezzlement. About kafanas and nationalists, gap-toothed unsophisticates drinking their cares away and firing shotguns in the air as they dance to cacophonous oriental melodies warbled by barely-clothed gangster’s molls.

About glamorous clubs full of silicone starlets and gun-toting mafiosi. Make it foreign and scary. Less civilized than our music and nightlife. Root it in the Milošević era, ignoring any evolution in the almost 15 years since, ignoring Yugoslavia’s preceding musical history, and ignoring comparable pop-folk genres that emerged in many European countries during the 1990s as musicians augmented traditional sounds with new technology.

Ignore the fact that Bosnian, Croatian and Romani singers are hugely popular in Serbia as you paint it as a still-intolerant nationalist nightmare. But what’s that cry I hear over the horizon? Noisey.vice. Dossier world music. Grandeur et décadence du turbo folk. Comment un hybride musical né à la fin des années 1980 est devenu la bande-son de la guerre et de la transition dans les Balkans. Eh, tu connais le turbofolk de Serbie ? Non ? Bah tu devrais. Tu passes à côte de quelque chose. Plus au niveau du symbolique que sur le plan musical, car comme son l'indique le turbofolk est par essence ringard, et ne serait qu'une vaste blague partout ailleurs que dans les Balkans.

Ce n'est pas des grattes sèches et du tuning, mais presque. Dire que c'est de la simple eurodance serait réducteur, et pas très marrant. Ajoute a ça une dimension sociale, à savoir que c'était et ca reste la musique de la jeunesse serbe "de base", des gosses paumés qui picolent un pivo pas cher à 4 heures du mat' dans un parc parce qu'ils ont pas les thunes pour aller en boîte. Berlin goes Balkan: Revisiting Hooliganism in Serbia: Interview with filmmaker Milan Miletić. Sexe, drogue et lutte des classes : la trap féministe en serbie. Documentary film: "Turbo Folk" on Behance. I Go Yougo, un voyage musical en Yougoslavie: Folk, néofolk et turbofolk, la politisation des musiques traditionnelles (1/4)

Avec Simon Rico, première étape de notre voyage musical dans ce pays qui n'existe plus que dans les mémoires et les livres d'histoires : du folk fédérateur aux synthétiseurs et boites à rythmes nationalistes du turbofolk. ESSAIS DE SURVIE EN MILIEU TURBOFOLK.