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The essays in this section address turbo-folk's contentious cultural location between east and west. Contextualizing turbo-folk within a wider history of the region, the essays unpack the many contradictions and anxieties around constructions of national identity through popular music in the contemporary Balkans. Here, turbo-folk controversies become especially heated, since many (if not all) of the former Yugoslav states are still searching for a stable national identity in the aftermath of recent wars, breakdown of the communist project, and a longer historical legacy of colonization.
 

Contents of this path:

  1. Orientalizing Turbofolk: Balkan Hybrid Identity and Responses to Ottoman Heritage
  2. Performance of the Nation in Turbofolk
  3. Turbofolk and Orientalism: A Question of Identity
  4. Is Gypsyness in Turbo-folk a Floating Signifier? The Case of Tanja Savic
  5. Popular Music as a Popular Way to Assert a Unique Croatian Identity
  6. Yugonostalgia and Music: Identity Beyond Borders
  7. Turbofolk and Nationalism
  8. Turbofolk Does What it Wants