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

Autori
Piškor, Mojca

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

Skup
Sites of Popular Music Heritage

Mjesto i datum
Liverpool, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 08.09.2011. - 09.09.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
music; space; nostalgia; geosonic mapping

Sažetak
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.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Znanost o umjetnosti, Etnologija i antropologija

POVEZANOST RADA