Turbo-folk

Turbo-folk is subgenre of Serbian contemporary pop music that initially developed during the 1990s as a fusion of techno and folk. The music glorified the lavish lifestyle of gangsters such as Arkan who were allowed to proliferate during the rule of Slobodan Milošević.^[1]

Turbo-folk

1990s, SFR Yugoslavia

Croatia[edit]

Turbo-folk grew in Croatia in part due to the popularity of the Croatian singer Severina's fusion of turbo-folk in her music. Turbo-folk is seen as a part of everyday life in Croatia and serves a means of social release and reaction to the effects of globalisation in Croatia.^[2]

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Collin, Matthew

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Gordy, Eric

Uroš Čvoro (2016) [2014]. . Ashgate; Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-00606-0.

Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia

Sabina Mihelj, , 2007.

"The Media and the Symbolic Geographies of Europe: The Case of Yugoslavia"

We Europeans?: media, representations, identities, Intellect Books, 2008, p. 168-9

Turbo-folk

Turbo-folk

Stylistic origins

Cultural origins

Croatia[edit]

Collin, Matthew

Gordy, Eric

Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia

"The Media and the Symbolic Geographies of Europe: The Case of Yugoslavia"

William Uricchio

Balkania Fanzine

Report about turbo-folk, ceca and politics

Muzika u vestima dana