Colours of the New Face of Serbia: National Symbols and Popular Music

In this paper I address nationalist iconography in Serbian popular music, especially the role of women as the symbols of nation building. Case in point is the victory of Serbian representative Marija Serifovic in Eurovision Song Contest in 2007. I analyze the way power struggle and strategic use of...

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Published inGlasnik Etnografskog instituta Vol. LVII; no. 2; pp. 8 - 18
Main Author Mitrović, Marijana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Етнографски институт САНУ 2009
Institute of Ethnography SANU
Subjects
Anthropology
new face of Serbia
subaltern
mediated selves
nationalism
popular music
female media figure
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Summary:In this paper I address nationalist iconography in Serbian popular music, especially the role of women as the symbols of nation building. Case in point is the victory of Serbian representative Marija Serifovic in Eurovision Song Contest in 2007. I analyze the way power struggle and strategic use of the differences are embodied and embedded through a media figure of Marija Serifovic in the process of showing the “new face of Serbia”.
ISSN:0350-0861
2334-8259