Full Description
Informed by fascinating interviews, photographs, and previously unexamined archival materials, this book reveals a compelling story of Yugoslav avant-garde and experimental music from 1945 until 1991, ending with the year when all artistic activities came to a sudden halt with the start of the Yugoslav wars. It examines the political, social, and cultural events that gave rise to the flourishing avant-garde scene in the country and follows the emergence and development of Yugoslav cultural programs in the postwar period that made the republic a magnet for cultural exchange, through to the sudden and violent dissolution of those programs with the collapse of the political state. The book is the first full-length book in English on the subject, and provides an indispensable, interdisciplinary resource that will contribute to the preservation of this legacy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Contents
Introduction; Part I. First Avant-Gardes: 1. Postwar Yugoslavia: socialist realism and moderated modernism; 2. Looking back to Byzantium: a new modernist aesthetic; 3. Music biennale zagreb and the musical avant-garde revolution of the 1960s; Part II. Electronic Music: 4. Early electronic music explorations in Yugoslavia and the formation of the electronic music studio radio Belgrade; 5. Pioneers of electronic music in Yugoslavia: a case study of Ludmila Frajt and Vladan Radovanović; 6. Computerization of electronic music in Yugoslavia; Part III. New Avant-Gardes and Postmodernism: 7. A cultural phenomenon: the student cultural center in Belgrade; 8. New avant-gardes: minimalism and fluxus; 9. Postmodernism; Epilogue: 1991; Bibliography; Appendix; Index.
