No. 23 (2017): Reflections of Socialism

Cover image of the issue no 23 of the journal Musicology

The main theme of this issue, Reflections on Socialism, is inspired by the International Conference "Musical Legacies of State Socialism – Revisiting the Narratives About Post-World War II Europe" that took place at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade in September 2015. Articles selected for this issue bring a cross section of topics and problem areas initiated by this conference; studies of Serbian music after World War II and music in other socialist countries alternate in order to allow readers to compare different contexts, whose specificities were predominantly determined by the strictness of the application of the socialist realist canon The theme Reflections of Socialism creates a colourful panorama of musical life in the period of state socialism, but also points to today's repercussions of certain systemic and ideological settings of that time.

Published: 30.12.2017

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