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Post by samm on Oct 29, 2019 22:50:58 GMT -5
Hello! My name is Sam McHenry, and I am attending a university in southern Alabama, USA. I am studying World Music Cultures and I am currently composing an ethnography on the rise of Turbo-folk during the Yugoslav wars. I understand that this time period is a very sensitive topic for people, but this is something that fascinates me and I would love to shine a light on it for my peers. If you lived through this time and were active in the Turbo-folk scene, or if you can steer me in the right direction, I would love to talk to you and hear your story. Thank you!
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Post by Pyrros on Oct 30, 2019 2:25:40 GMT -5
Hello! My name is Sam McHenry, and I am attending a university in southern Alabama, USA. I am studying World Music Cultures and I am currently composing an ethnography on the rise of Turbo-folk during the Yugoslav wars. I understand that this time period is a very sensitive topic for people, but this is something that fascinates me and I would love to shine a light on it for my peers. If you lived through this time and were active in the Turbo-folk scene, or if you can steer me in the right direction, I would love to talk to you and hear your story. Thank you!
This general fall of culture, ethos, moral values, music, art, etc was a direct consequence of the international isolation and heavy negative propaganda against south slavs engineered and enforced by the known anglo-saksan centers. So I guess you live in the heart of where it all started. Search there for your answers.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2019 11:57:39 GMT -5
Hello! My name is Sam McHenry, and I am attending a university in southern Alabama, USA. I am studying World Music Cultures and I am currently composing an ethnography on the rise of Turbo-folk during the Yugoslav wars. I understand that this time period is a very sensitive topic for people, but this is something that fascinates me and I would love to shine a light on it for my peers. If you lived through this time and were active in the Turbo-folk scene, or if you can steer me in the right direction, I would love to talk to you and hear your story. Thank you! Pyrros ' comment has a lot of truth but since you don't have a clue about turbo-folk music I can provide you with more in-depth explanation. Before the break-up of SFR Yugoslavia there was Serbian folk music that, for some part, resembled turbo-folk, except for it to appear on a television with national frequency (at that time all TV stations were owned by the government) it had to go through the strict review and critique process and it was nearly impossible for bad songs to appear on television. Usually singers were followed by the whole band (or rather a smaller orchestra) of well educated and trained musicians, and also the lyrics were carefully arranged. That changed later on and you got group of 3-4 people in small garage band dominated by synthesizer, accordion or both. That's why majority of this music sounds almost the same. Simultaneously, when the corporate laws appeared in Yugoslavia (in the late 80's) you had a lot of small TV stations appearing on the scene. Since they were small, and the government obviously invested in other things, the investment in arts and regulations was reduced and it made a room for such artists to appear at those TV stations. So that's basically when we had big boom of anonymous artists appearing on televisions and as Yugoslav civil war pretty much deteriorated everything in the country this turbo-folk music sound pretty primitive and low-class, given that you were following folk music prior to it.
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