Urban folk music and cultural influences

labels for narodna muzika (folk music) in serbia in the twentieth century

Marija Dumnić Vilotijević

pp. 39-50

in: Ivana Medi, Marija Dumnić Vilotijević, Ivana Medić (eds), Contemporary popular music studies, Berlin, Springer, 2019

Abstract

This paper deals with urban folk music in Serbia (whilst considering its roots in pre-World War II Yugoslavia). During its history this music was influenced by cultural practices from the (Ottoman) East and from the West (from Austro-Hungarian to contemporary global pop), combined with local semi-rural lyrical repertoire. Urban folk music is regarded as specific traditional Balkan popular music.