Ivo Skoric on Sun, 3 Apr 2005 00:55:16 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Slovenian - Bosnian Cultural Exchange |
The most controversial former Yugoslav alternative music project, and the only one that ever made success globally, Slovenian band Laibach moved to Bosnia. http://www.laibach.nsk.si/ Laibach (German name for Ljubljana) phenomenon is very important for understanding of the developments in SFRY in late eighties, that ultimately lead to the demise of former Yugoslavia. Their strength was in the weakness of that state. http://www.gla.ac.uk/~dc4w/laibach/hpart6.html Recently, Laibach sued Slovenia (!) for cultural hegemonism. Actually, Laibach got offended by their annual state budget being cut from $20,000 to $4,500. They lost the case, and decided to become a Bosnian band (ironically, Bosnia was the first republic in former Yugoslavia to ban their performances; they were banned to perform in SFRY from 1983-1987). Bosnian cultural ministry welcomed Laibach. In exchange, in Slovenia there is rising popularity of Bosnian folk- music.... ivo--------------------------------------------------------- Ivo Skoric 19 Baxter Street Rutland VT 05701 802.775.7257 ivo@balkansnet.org balkansnet.org # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net