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

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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