Naslov
Music-Making Overseas: Yugoslav 78rpm Record Production in North American Diaspora

Autori
Dunatov, Dora

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Association for Recorded Sound Collections: 56TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS / - , 2022, 23-23

Skup
56th Annual Association for Recorded Sound Collections Conference (ARSC)

Mjesto i datum
Online, 19.05.2022. - 21.05.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Record industry ; Diaspora ; 78 rpm records ; Yugoslavia

Sažetak
This paper emerged as an attempt to assess the position of rather small Yugoslav record companies that issued 78 rpm records and their influence beyond the national borders. Taking the fieldwork five thousand miles west and almost a century in the past, to the diasporic communities of ex-Yugoslavia in North America, I will be listening to the echo of an “old country” and try transmitting it to the present. The main research questions include analysis of the specific processes that helped Yugoslav record companies (in particular Zagreb-based Jugoton) to reach overseas, and the level of music and record exchange between diasporic and “home” communities. The paper will mainly, but not exclusively, focus on the Croatian diaspora in Pennsylvania, its neighboring states in the west, as well as California and New York. The research methods include interviews, systematic analysis of periodicals issued for the mentioned community, various printed advertisements, and finally, records themselves. Collected material should help to introduce a selection of recorded musicians and their preferred repertoire that often included songs in displaced language left in heritage, as well as their status within and outside of the community and regular diasporic events. On top of that, the paper should convey colorful ethnic affiliations within the repertoire and their dialogue. Finally, I intend to illuminate prominent individuals of South-Slavic origin that contributed to the music exchange between the Yugoslav community in the US and at “home”.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija, Glazbena umjetnost

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