“Death to Facism isn’t in the Catechism”: Legacies of Socialism in Croatian Popular Music After the Fall of Yugoslavia
“Death to Facism isn’t in the Catechism”: Legacies of Socialism in Croatian Popular Music After the Fall of Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses both textual and structural legacies of socialism in Croatian popular music since the collapse of socialism and Yugoslavia. Yugoslav socialism struggled to reconcile socialist consciousness and capitalist consumerism, forcing the producers of popular culture to make sense of the political field that surrounded them and put ideology into practice. The structural conditions of cultural production under socialism, the use of socialist iconography and memory as resources in post-socialist popular music and the negation of the socialist experience by patriotic musicians reflect three layers of socialist legacy in contemporary Croatian popular culture.

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