CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Grujic, Marija |
|---|---|
| Title | Community and the Popular: Women, Nation and Turbo-Folk in Post-Yugoslav Serbia |
| Summary | The thesis explores the representations of women in the turbo-folk music scene in Serbia in the post-Yugoslav period by examining the signification of gender and nation in women singers’ performances. Turbo-folk has been the most popular music genre and the most developed music market in Serbia since the break-up of Yugoslavia to date, while the peak of its success was in the nineties during the period of rapid national homogenization in Serbia. The genre has often been criticized for political conformism and sexism promoted by its performances. In addition, it is often seen as an authentic expression of Serbian nationalist political aspirations, and “Serbian culture” which represents the existing social order and social values. Since the early nineties, the turbo-folk has promoted ethno-national community as the most relevant construct of the community in general. The thesis explores in what way the relationship between national identification and the representation of women has been constructed in turbo-folk performances. More to the point, it examines the interconnection between sexuality and gender dynamics represented in turbo-folk performances, on the one hand, and models of community and nation, on the other hand. In addition, the thesis explores in what way nationalism is produced in turbo-folk performances, and how representations of sexuality and gender dynamics are employed in the production of national homogeneity. The thesis analyzes the constructions of gender paradigms immanent to the concept of the ethno-national homogeneity. Central to these constructions are heteronormative representations of women as loyal to community values and sexually subject to the model of man, created on the basis of the socially privileged image of men in Serbian society. |
| Supervisor | Helms, Elissa |
| Department | Gender Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/gphgrm01.pdf |
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