Table of Contents

Introduction The Three Stories of Turbo-folk; Part I Turbo-nation: Turbo-folk and Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia, 1970–2010; Chapter 1 The People’s Eastern Kitsch: Self-management, Modernisation and ‘Newly Composed Folk Music’ in Yugoslavia; Chapter 2 Remember the Nineties?: Turbo-folk as the Vanishing Mediator of Nationalism; Chapter 3 Beyond Serbia: Turbo-folk across Cultural and National Boundaries; Part II Turbo-culture: Cultural Responses to Turbo-folk; Chapter 4 Turbo-art: Music and National Identity in the Work of Contemporary Artists from Former Yugoslavia; Chapter 5 They Can Be Heroes: Popular Culture and Public Sculpture in Former Yugoslavia; Chapter 6 Singin’ in the Film: Turbo-folk and Self-exoticisation in the Films of Sr?an Dragojevi?; conclusion Conclusion;

About the Author

Uros Axvoro is a Senior Lecturer in Art Theory at UNSW Australia. His research areas include contemporary art and national identity, popular culture and post-socialism, and the relation between contemporary art and politics.

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