CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Dimitrijevic, Olga |
|---|---|
| Title | The body of the Female Folk Singer: Constructions of National Identities in Serbia after 2000 |
| Summary | In this thesis I analyze position of female body in the space of Serbian musical show business, popularly called Estrada. I see Estrada as a complex phenomenon; a culturally specific, market oriented social space which reacts to and interacts with processes of social, cultural and economic transformation of Serbian society at present. The body of a female folk singer is Estrada’s main representative. I use this body to explore how relationship between Estrada and Serbian nationalism, and how Estrada engages in construction of various national identities in Serbia taking as a historical reference year 2000 and official end of Slobodan Milosevic’s era. To demonstrate the complexity of these identities, I explore the role of female singer’s body in construction of two seemingly paradoxal 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 for dominant patriarchal ideology. |
| Supervisor | Lukic, Jasmina ; Loutfi, Anna |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/dimitrijevic_olga.pdf |
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