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Popular Music and Politics: The Croatian Multi-play

The chapter examines relations between Croatian popular music and Croatian state policies, in a sense in which they represent a locked-in whole, or, using Laclau & Mouffe's term, a 'hegemonic universality'. A hegemonic relation, i.e. one "by which a certain particularity assumes the represen­tation of a universality entirely incommensurable with it" (Laclau & Mouffe, 2001, x) is analysed through the discourse of popular music which hereby serves the function of an indirect lens with an additional mirroring effect. The goal is to break down the hermetic and empirically confusing notion of totality to a matrix of elements and forces which render it possible. For that purpose, the chapter points to formative agents on the popular scene, observing their function(s) within the matrix and pointing to a disrupted primary relation between the field of popular music and its supposed content and function (music and entertainment), in favour of a secondary, political relation.

pseudoindividualisation; hegemony; identity; diskursna marginalizacija; rock; folk; ethno

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