The violent dissolution of Yugoslavia brought about cultural and artistic developments throughout the Balkan area. However, art and music actively contributed to this disintegration, causing changes and fractures at the socio-cultural level well before politics and war violently intervened.
Indeed, various art forms played an important role in conveying political ideas, whether they were pro-unitarian, patriotic, or nationalist. If in Slovenia, for example, the music scene was primarily engaged in the struggle for a free and independent country, in Croatia it came to embody a revived patriotism, while in Serbia there was a wide variety of artistic reactions to the social and political changes of the time.
Drawing on this, the meeting will feature a dialogue between three experts in the field of artistic phenomena of the period who, by bringing together reflections on the various art forms of the time, will be able to weave a web of cultural-historical relations linking the past to the present in the Balkan area.
Speakers: Ana Dević (University of Bologna), Marco Jakovljević (University of Zagreb) and Giustina Selvelli (University of Ljubljana).
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