Telo folk pevačice: konstrukcija nacionalnih identiteta u Srbiji posle 2000. godine
The Body of a Female Folk Singer: Constructions of National Identities in Serbia after 2000

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I analyze the position of female body in the space of Serbian music show business, popularly called estrada. I see estrada as a complex phenomenon; a culturally specific, market oriented social space that reacts to and interacts with the processes of social, cultural and economic transformation of the Serbian society at present. The body of a female folk singer is estrada’s main representative. I use this body to explore the relationship between estrada and Serbian nationalism, and how estrada engages in construction of various national identities in Serbia, taking as a historical reference the year 2000 and the official end of Slobodan Milošević’s era. To demonstrate the complexity of these identities, I explore the role of a female singer’s body in the construction of two seemingly paradoxical identities: the national and the gay one. Finally, through the relationship of the singers with their female audience I continue to examine the limits of estrada’s possible subversiveness against the dominant patriarchal ideology.

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