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Toward a Geosonic Mapping of a "Better Past" – (Re)Inscribing a Popular Music Site onto the Map of Zagreb

Zvečka was a (nick)name of an unattractive small café located in the centre of Zagreb that in the 1980s became a lively creative meeting-point and one of the few places in which New Wave scene of the city "lived" by day – place where both New Wave musicians and their audiences drank their coffee side-by-side. Three decades later, in a time of a revival of interest in the 1980s and the popular culture and popular music heritage of ("decadent") socialism, this same place has become a sort of central topos in the "geosonic mapping" of the New Wave era – a period considered by many to be one of city's and society's "better pasts". Considering the "transition" of this space – where music was never performed live, which is why I label it a quintessential musical space without music – in this paper I will offer a (re)reading of number of texts which over the past decade have tried to reinvent, romanticize, mythologize, and heritagize the local New Wave movement in Croatia, as well as attempt to interpret the contemporary processes through which one site of popular music of the past was reinscribed into the (alternative) map of today's Zagreb.

music; space; nostalgia; geosonic mapping

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