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Yugoslav Youth Communist Press: State Sponsored Subculture?

In this paper I analyze how, during the second half of the 1970s, in communist Yugoslavia, one specific communist media – the youth press – originally designed as a chief political party tool, turned into a focal point of a new urban youth subculture. Once actively politically engaged, in the second part of the 1970s the youth press shifted its focus from direct political action to seemingly apolitical but thoroughly subversive countercultural activities, such as evolving vibrant rock and punk scene. In the process the youth press became a true spokesperson of both musicians and their audience, and authorities were happy to tolerate this new policy, as long as the political issues were not tackled directly. Finally, attempt will be made to employ theoretical concepts developed in the context of Western media to analyze phenomena that emerged in a diametrically opposed setting.

youth press; subculture; punk; communist Yugoslavia

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