The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region.

List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Thinking Politically with Popular Music of the BalkansPart 1: Region and ‘the Balkans’ in Practice1 The Emergence of the World Music Concept in the Balkans: Early and More Recent Steps2 Lăutari, Music-Making, and Social Practices of Live Performance in Southern Romania3 Politics, Activism, and Romani Music: Interpreting Trends in Serbia, North Macedonia and Bulgaria4 Electronic Dance Music Festivals in Romania: a Case of Reversed Balkanism5 The Balkans in the Eurovision Song ContestPart 2: Reviving and Revising Histories6 Reviving Nineteenth-Century Wallachian and Moldavian Urban Music7 Bosnian Discography Before World War I: Recording Artists, Repertoire and Politics8 The Development and Institutionalization of Albanian Music During the Communist Period9 ‘Please, Mile, Don’t Sing Anything Political’: Turbo-Folk, Politics and the Restoration of Capitalism in Serbia10 The Artistic Units of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina (ARBiH), Popular Patriotic Music Production and the Question of National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina During the War from 1992 to 199511 The Politics of Performance and Popular Music in Turkey12 Songs After Genocide: Music of Hatred and TriumphalismPart 3: Defining ‘the Popular’13 Popular Music and the ‘Mass Culture’ of Socialist Yugoslavia in the Eyes of Critics and Theorists14 To traghoúdhi tou nekroú adelfoú: Mikis Theodorakis’ Autoethnographic and Political Perspectives in a Contemporary Greek Laiki Tragedy15 Groovy Aesthetics, Intercultural Perspectives, and the Rise of Ethnojazz in Bulgaria16 The Sound of Distinction: Social Class and Political Orientations as Predictors of Music Taste in Croatia17 Popular Culture and Pandemic Politics: Musically Mitigating COVID-19 in 2020 BulgariaPart 3: Political Economies and Political Aesthetics18 Women and Gender in the Early Record Industry in Former Yugoslavia: Snapshots of Singers, a Composer, Industrial Manpower, and Gendered Humour19 The Musical Film Genre in Romanian Cinema: From Melodramatic Socialism to Postmodern Irony20 In Search of National Style: Yugoslav Popular Music Between the Balkans and the Mediterranean21 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Korea?: Laibach and the Poetics of Politics22 White Power Music and Antifascist Rap: Anti-System Music in Greece During the 2009–21 Crises23 Popular Culture or Resistance?: Rap and Politics in Turkey Since the 1990sPart 4: Margins of National Identity24 The Neopontic Music of Greece: Traditions of Modernity and the A/politics of Identity25 Just Mediterranean, Please: Croatian Neoklapa Music and National (Re)Positioning26 Between the Virtual and the Make-Believe: Anthems, Bells, and a Performance for Liberland Along the Croatian and Serbian Danube27 Queering Bulgarian Pop-Folk: Hybridity, Gaga Feminism, and Defamiliarization in Chalga28 Understanding Gender and Sexuality in Sevdah as a Popular GenrePart 5: Globalizing Postcoloniality and Race29 Black Popular Musics in Yugoslavia30 ‘The Blacks of Yugoslavia’: Racialization, Resistance, and Kosova’s ‘MTV Generation’31 Br/otherhood and Dis/unity: Racial Differentiations Across the Former Yugoslav Region and Serbian Diaspora Communities in Serbia’s Two Major Music Festivals32 What is this ‘Balkan’ in Balkan Popular Culture?: Stuart Hall’s Sociology of Popular Culture, Identity and Race through Analogy and Connection33 From AfroGreeks to the Black Mediterranean: De/facing Whiteness in the Rap of Negros tou MoriaPart 6: New Technologies and Transformations 34 Stacking Nightingales, Male Tears, and Albums of the Year: How the Balkans and Other Scales of Domestic Hip-Hop Are Crafted35 ‘Popularity’ in the YouTube Era: an Anthropological Analysis of Music Trending on Serbian YouTube and IDJTV36 From Turbo Music to Turbo Politics: Pop-Folk and Anti-Establishment Politics in Bulgaria 37 ‘Dajem ti srce, zemljo moja’: Patriotic Music and National Unity in Croatia in the Aftermath of the 2020 Petrinja Earthquake38 ‘And Then We Sang’: Affective Communities and Russian/EU Cultural Diplomacy in Moldova’s Victory Day and Europe Day, 202239 Queer Yugosphere: Queer Audiences and Popular Music in the Post-Yugoslav SpaceIndex