Hardcore Ljubljana : punk in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, 1983-1986
This thesis explores the Ljubljana hardcore punk scene between 1983 and 1986. Utilising a combination of interviews with central participants and analysis of physical and musical artefacts, it contributes to wider understandings of alternative culture following the death of Tito, and during the pivotal final decade of Yugoslavia. The hardcore scene operated as an incendiary and somewhat utopian counterculture, and was created and maintained by young people as a component of the Ljubljana alternative cultural underground. Encompassing more than politics, incoherent rebellion or music alone, the scene facilitated instinctive reactions to local experiences, incorporated domestic specificities and provided opportunities for communication with like-minded people on a domestic and international basis. Studies of punk in Yugoslavia have tended to focus upon the significance of the popular first wave scene of the late 1970s, culminating in discussions of the short lived wave of stigmatisation that occurred at the beginning of the 1980s. This thesis documents how Ljubljana's counterculture was informed by these dynamics, but also grew to transcend them. In doing so, it outlines how punk survived, mutated and spread
Pitt, Jack
Hardcore Ljubljana : punk in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, 1983-1986. This thesis explores the Ljubljana hardcore punk scene between 1983 and 1986. Utilising a combination of interviews with central participants and analysis of physical and musical artefacts, it contributes to wider understandings of alternative culture following the death of Tito, and during the pivotal final decade of Yugoslavia. The hardcore scene operated as an incendiary and somewhat utopian counterculture, and was created and maintained by young people as a component of the Ljubljana alternative cultural underground. Encompassing more than politics, incoherent rebellion or music alone, the scene facilitated instinctive reactions to local experiences, incorporated domestic specificities and provided opportunities for communication with like-minded people on a domestic and international basis. Studies of punk in Yugoslavia have tended to focus upon the significance of the popular first wave scene of the late 1970s, culminating in discussions of the short lived wave of stigmatisation that occurred at the beginning of the 1980s. This thesis documents how Ljubljana's counterculture was informed by these dynamics, but also grew to transcend them. In doing so, it outlines how punk survived, mutated and spread
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