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How we went back in time: Music on the protests of "For Common Macedonia" movement

In the first half of 2017, turbulent political processes in the Republic of Macedonia provoked protests unified under the name "Za Zaednichka Makedonija ["For Common Macedonia"]. With numbers of few hundred to many hundred thousand participants, protests took place in 42 locations all over the state and the diaspora. A very diverse choice of songs were sung during these protests. The appearance of songs from the period of the Ilinden Uprising, through the partisan songs from World War II, or songs from the hippie movement, authored folk songs and modern cheering songs for sport events were insirative academic provocation for scholars during the protests who were able to follow the national-identity building processes through the represented music. Although the Macedonians consider their musical folklore as the main identity marker, neither traditional nor folk music resounded as the dominant music landscape during these protests.

"For Common Macedonia" movement ; music ; political protests ; national identity.

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