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Dr. Nele Karajlić in the Framework of the “New Primitives”
Dr. Nele Karajlić in the Framework of the “New Primitives”

Author(s): Borislava Vučković
Subject(s): Cultural history, Music, Social history, Sociology of Art
Published by: Muzikološki institut SANU
Keywords: Dr. Nele Karajlić; “New Primitivеs;” “No Smoking Orchestra” band; Top List of Surrealists;

Summary/Abstract: Te “New Primitives” is an alternative, and later, a cultural movement that emerged in Sarajevo in the late 1970s and early 1980s; the movement ofcially ceased to exist in 1987. The most substantial cultural capital of the movement relates to “Zabranjeno pušenje” (“No Smoking”) band and the radio and television show Top lista nadrealista (Top List of Surrealists), while the biggest individual cultural capital lies with Nenad Janković, a phony doctor with the “erotic” pseudonym of Dr. Nele Karajlić. Te subject mater of this article is the authorship and co-authorship of Dr. Nele Karajlić within the “No Smoking” band and the television show Top List of Surrealists in the cultural space of the socialist Yugoslavia during the 1980s.

  • Issue Year: 2/2017
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 99-115
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English
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