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Reinscribing the Other: African Musics and Musicians in the Changing Cultural Landscapes of Croatia

In the proposed paper the author attempts to interpret the (dis)continuities of presence and visibility ; the transformations of performance contexts ; and the changing reception of African musics and musicians in the cultural space of Croatia since the 1960s. Strongly influenced by the official state policy of Yugoslavia and the fact of country's crucial role in the Non- Alignment movement, the 1960s might be seen as the period in which African culture significantly gained in visibility in everyday cultural life of Croatia. Scholarly literature on the presence and importance of African musics, and the role of African musicians in this and following decades unfortunately remains non-extant. By relying on recent literature on legacies of racial imagination in European context, above all on recent work of Gloria Wekker (2016) and Catherine Baker (2018), the author tries to fill the existing void. Although the proposed paper primarily focuses on the socialist period (existing written sources, personal narratives, and traces of African musics in the discography of the times), it nevertheless – the author argues – opens important questions that could illuminate the significant changes in cultural and state policies that in important ways "colour" the way African musics are listened to and perceived in Croatia today.

Reinscribing the Other: African Musics and Musicians in the Changing Cultural Landscapes of Croatia

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