The Routledge handbook of popular music and politics of the Balkans / edited by Catherine Baker.

Introduction. Thinking Politically with Popular Music of the Balkans / Catherine Baker -- Part 1. Region and 'the Balkans' in Practice. The Emergence of the World Music Concept in the Balkans : Early and More Recent Steps / Iva Nenić and Tatjana Nikolić ; Lăutari, Music-Making, and Social Practices of Live Performance in Southern Romania / Margaret Hiebert Beissinger ; Politics, Activism, and Romani Music : Interpreting Trends in Serbia, North Macedonia and Bulgaria / Carol Silverman ; Electronic Dance Music Festivals in Romania : a Case of Reversed Balkanism / Ruxandra Trandafoiu ; The Balkans in the Eurovision Song Contest / Dean Vuletic -- Part 2. Reviving and Revising Histories. Reviving Nineteenth-Century Wallachian and Moldavian Urban Music / Florian Iordan ; Bosnian Discography Before World War I : Recording Artists, Repertoire and Politics / Risto Pekka Pennanen ; The Development and Institutionalization of Albanian Music During the Communist Period / Erjada Progonati ; 'Please, Mile, Don't Sing Anything Political' : Turbo-Folk, Politics and the Restoration of Capitalism in Serbia / Aleksandar Momčilović ; The Artistic Units of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina (ARBiH), Popular Patriotic Music Production and the Question of National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina During the War from 1992 to 1995 / Petra Hamer ; The Politics of Performance and Popular Music in Turkey / Gonca Girgin and Merve Eken Küçükaksoy ; Songs After Genocide: Music of Hatred and Triumphalism / Hariz Halilovich -- Part 3. Defining 'the Popular'. Popular Music and the 'Mass Culture' of Socialist Yugoslavia in the Eyes of Critics and Theorists / Reana Senjković ; To traghoúdhi tou nekroú adelfoú : Mikis Theodorakis' Autoethnographic and Political Perspectives in a Contemporary Greek Laiki Tragedy / Maria Athanasiou ; Groovy Aesthetics, Intercultural Perspectives, and the Rise of Ethnojazz in Bulgaria / Claire Levy ; The Sound of Distinction : Social Class and Political Orientations as Predictors of Music Taste in Croatia / Krešimir Krolo and Željka Tonković ; Popular Culture and Pandemic Politics : Musically Mitigating COVID-19 in 2020 Bulgaria / Donna A. Buchanan

Part 4. Political Economies and Political Aesthetics. Women and Gender in the Early Record Industry in Former Yugoslavia : Snapshots of Singers, a Composer, Industrial Manpower, and Gendered Humour / Naila Ceribašić ; The Musical Film Genre in Romanian Cinema : From Melodramatic Socialism to Postmodern Irony / Doru Pop ; In Search of National Style : Yugoslav Popular Music Between the Balkans and the Mediterranean / Anita Buhin ; How Do You Solve a Problem Like Korea? : Laibach and the Poetics of Politics / Irena Šentevska ; White Power Music and Antifascist Rap : Anti-System Music in Greece During the 2009-21 Crises / George Kordas ; Popular Culture or Resistance? : Rap and Politics in Turkey Since the 1990s / Ozan Eren -- Part 5. Margins of National Identity. The Neopontic Music of Greece : Traditions of Modernity and the A/politics of Identity / Ioannis Tsekouras ; Just Mediterranean, Please : Croatian Neoklapa Music and National (Re)Positioning / Eni Buljubašić ; Between the Virtual and the Make-Believe : Anthems, Bells, and a Performance for Liberland Along the Croatian and Serbian Danube / Ian MacMillen ; Queering Bulgarian Pop-Folk : Hybridity, Gaga Feminism, and Defamiliarization in Chalga / Elitza Kotzeva ; Understanding Gender and Sexuality in Sevdah as a Popular Genre / Damir Imamović

Part 6. Globalizing Postcoloniality and Race. Black Popular Musics in Yugoslavia / Linda Cimardi ; 'The Blacks of Yugoslavia' : Racialization, Resistance, and Kosova's 'MTV Generation' / Jane C. Sugarman ; Br/otherhood and Dis/unity : Racial Differentiations Across the Former Yugoslav Region and Serbian Diaspora Communities in Serbia's Two Major Music Festivals / Jelena Gligorijević ; What is this 'Balkan' in Balkan Popular Culture? : Stuart Hall's Sociology of Popular Culture, Identity and Race through Analogy and Connection / Catherine Baker ; From AfroGreeks to the Black Mediterranean : De/facing Whiteness in the Rap of Negros tou Moria / Penelope Papailias -- Part 7. New Technologies and Transformations. Stacking Nightingales, Male Tears, and Albums of the Year : How the Balkans and Other Scales of Domestic Hip-Hop Are Crafted / Owen Kohl and Dragana Cvetanović ; 'Popularity' in the YouTube Era : an Anthropological Analysis of Music Trending on Serbian YouTube and IDJTV / Marija Ajduk ; From Turbo Music to Turbo Politics : Pop-Folk and Anti-Establishment Politics in Bulgaria / Dragomir Stoyanov and Elza Ibroscheva ; 'Dajem ti srce, zemljo moja' : Patriotic Music and National Unity in Croatia in the Aftermath of the 2020 Petrinja Earthquake / Ivana Polić ; 'And Then We Sang' : Affective Communities and Russian/EU Cultural Diplomacy in Moldova's Victory Day and Europe Day, 2022 / Domenico Valenza ; Queer Yugosphere : Queer Audiences and Popular Music in the Post-Yugoslav Space / Mišo Kapetanović.

"The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region. The vibrant growth of this subject area ever since the 1990s has been intertwined with the region's political and socio-economic transformations, including the collapse of state socialism in much of the region, the break-up of Yugoslavia, the advent of neoliberal capitalism, the rise of Romani activism, the complex politics of 'Europeanization' before and after the global financial crisis, and the region's relationship to the European Union border regime. The handbook illustrates the wide range of disciplines and methods that contribute to this field's interdisciplinary dialogue, and highlights emerging approaches such as the study of Black diasporas in the region, popular music's links with LGBTQ+ communities, and the impact of digital technologies on musical cultures. This volume will benefit specialist researchers; tutors creating or refreshing courses on popular music in the region; and students interested in these topics, especially those who are at the point of developing their own independent research projects"-- Provided by publisher.