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"In my own little private darkness..." – narrating life and actions in song

Singer-songwriters' music has for a long time been seen, heard, constructed and represented as a distinct category of popular music strongly associated with "emotional honesty", "intelligence", "authenticity" and "artistic autonomy", "lyrical introspection", "confessional songwriting", "gentle musical arrangements" and an "understated performance". As music that presumably comes from an intensly personal perspective and by its conventions significantly departs from the "macho articulations" of conventional rock music, singer-songwriter idiom became a space in which participation of women was both legitimized and welcomed, making it a confined space of legitimacy not as readily echoed in other rock genres. My ongoing research on two young Croatian female singer-songwriters tries to question existing assumptions and (mis)conceptions of the idiom while simultaneously searching (through conversation with the two musicians) for possible answers to the challenge of self-authoring through/in music (in a genre that is perceived as such) and self-(re)positioning in the challenging context of local popular music scene.

music; singer-songwriters; women; Croatia

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