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Tomislav Longinovic examines music at the two endings of Yugoslavia (1941 and 1991) in "Music Wars: Blood and Song at the End of Yugoslavia." Longinovic explores first the ethnomusicological theories of Vladimir Dvornikovic and then the "hierarchy of musical differences that was constructed as a tool of racial/cultural separation from the ...
During the Yugoslav Wars, music was at times used for militaristic and nationalistic purposes and as a form of violence; journalists documented instances where captives were forced to sing the nationalist songs of their captors.
May 27, 2016 · Ana Hofman, a specialist in the music of former Yugoslavia, says wartime Partisan songs can be seen as subversive in today’s context of a global capitalist crisis.
Feb 2, 2021 · The late Zagreb music critic Ante Perković famously dubbed the punk and new wave scene Yugoslavia’s “Seventh Republic”, an “invisible, supranational and extraterritorial” entity that brought people together rather than throwing up new divisions.
Ethnomusicologists from both inside and outside the region produced a remarkable body of literature on this topic that assists understanding and interpretation of complex and multifarious relations between war and music in the region in the course ofthe 1990s.
- Svanibor Pettan
Music played an enormously important role in Yugoslavia from the very beginning. Its potential to foster a common identity was recognized rather early.
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The Yugoslav Wars included conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo, lasting from 1991 to 1999. These wars resulted in the deaths of approximately 130,000 people and displaced millions, creating a humanitarian crisis in the region.
