Folk Music as a Folk Enemy: Music Censorship in Socialist Yugoslavia

Abstract

Yugoslavia attempted with a significant degree of success, to implement the so-called liberal socialism. This resulted in complex censorship regimes of popular music that operated in the empty space between official negations and actual enforcements. Overt censorship mainly concerned a handful of issues, such as the national identities of the respective constitutional peoples of Yugoslavia and the representation of the country’s leader, Tito. Hofman shifts her attention from institutional mechanisms of censorship to personal and unwritten norms and practices, in particular self-censorship and the so-called ‘editorial censorship’ that concerned with limiting the presence of certain genres in the media. She focuses on one such genre: NCFM (newly-composed folk music), which was an object of prejudices and restrictions due to its perceived low artistic quality and purely commercial character. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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