Naslov
The Role of Music in the Formation of Croatian Nation-State: Macro- and Micro-Perspectives

Autori
Trako Poljak, Tijana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
El pentagrama político. Ensayos sobre música y nacionalismo

Urednik/ci
Colorado, Alfonso ; Lloret, Mariona ; Ucelay-Da Cal, Enric

Izdavač
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

Grad
Barcelona

Godina
2016

Raspon stranica
136-172

ISBN
978-84-666-5818-8

Ključne riječi
nation-building, national music, national symbols, micro-sociology, Croatia
(national music, national symbols, micro-sociology, Croatia)

Sažetak
Before Romanticism matured as an attitude, proponents of achieving a collective selfhood aspired to render the emotion of belonging as something tangible. The power of music as both an emotion and a rational construct runs parallel to political feeling. But there remains a basic contradiction. Music can achieve perhaps a unique capacity to communicate, as it affirms the sense of shared community, but also the fascination of contagion to outsiders willing to give themselves up to its rhythms and melodies. In this academic study, Tijana Trako Poljak of the University of Zagreb explores the nature of musical “nation-building” (in Reinhard Bendix’s famous formula) in the new-old independent Croatia, a stauchly nationalist entity which came out of the collapse of Communist Yugoslavia in 1995. She is particularly aware of the role of songs, from the national anthem to protest lyrics, and shows how a political system in the making can coincide with the formation of an independent musical market.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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