The Serbian people ruled by Prince Miloš had their first look at a manufactured musical instrument in the year following the death of Franz Schubert. That was also the first time that this people ...

This article by Ena Rizvić was originally published on Balkan Diskurs, a project of the Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC). An edited version has been republished by Global Voices under a ...

This story is based on original coverage by Meta.mk. An edited version is republished here under a content-sharing agreement between Global Voices and Metamorphosis Foundation. Rock fans across the ...

People’s memories of a huge anti-war concert in Sarajevo in 1991 are being collected for a project which also acts as a warning about the dangers of nationalism in contemporary Europe, its creator ...

With music, intercultural proximity cannot be mere coincidence. While in our polyglot world music functions as a kind of passé-partout for assimilation across linguistic boundaries, globalization has ...

In the mid-'60s, Mexican mariachi music ruled the airwaves in Yugoslavia. Singers sported charro suits and sombreros, typical mariachi garb, with typically Slavic names. The style was known as Yu-Mex, ...

Fans throughout former Yugoslavia are mourning the passing of one of the most recognisable names of the Yugoslav music scene – whose singing career began in the 1950s. Gabi Novak performing in ...

At 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 10, the Slovenian National Home will host a special Yugoslav Rock Night (that translates into Jugoslovanska Rok Noč in Slovenian and Југословенска Pок Hоћ in Serbian) and ...

In a small, smoky room in Sarajevo some time in the early 80s, socialist apparatchiks in suits discuss the problem of youth delinquency and the horror of “Western influence”. One comrade makes a ...