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Socialist Night Fever. Yugoslav Disco on Film and Television

This chapter deals with the visual legacy of Yugoslav disco that thrived in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside more renowned punk and new wave scenes. It treats disco as a complex cultural phenomenon with remarkable ability to spread beyond its American homeland. Like its archetype, Yugoslav disco cannot be reduced to the musical realm, since it developed a distinct visual language that attached specific images, ambience and behaviour to the musical grooves. I follow disco’s portrayal on Yugoslav film and television which helped articulate disco’s complex imagery representative of the country’s ongoing ideological decay. As film and TV directors processed disco through the late socialist filter, they revealed complicated realities of the era, while introducing new and transgressive media patterns.

socialist Yugoslavia, popular music, Yugoslav film, socialist club cultures, socialist disco

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