[ecrea] new book on everyday life and popular culture in socialism

> > New book
> > on Everyday Life and Popular Culture in Socialism
> >  
> >  
> > REMEMBERING UTOPIA: THE CULTURE OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN SOCIALIST
> > YUGOSLAVIA
> > Edited by Breda Luthar and Maruša Pušnik
> > Published by New Academia Publishing, 2010, Washington, DC, USA
> > $30.00 paper; ISBN 978-0-9844062-3-4
> > Available from booksellers or direct from New Academia Publishing
> > http://www.newacademia.com/
> >  
> >  
> > "This book focuses on a cultural and social history of
> > socialist Yugoslavia from the perspective of »ordinary« people and by
> > reconstructing their memories. The contributors, many of them belonging
> > to a new generation of scholars from the former Yugoslavia, employ new
> > approaches in order to make sense of the complicated past of this
> > country."
> > Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer, Director of South-East Institute,
> > University of Regensburg
> >  
> > "This is a highly original project, which will cover a much
> > neglected area, helping those who either did not make it to Yugoslavia in
> > Tito's time or were born too late to understand what life then and there
> > was all about."
> > Sabrina P. Ramet, Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian
> > University of Science and Technology in Trondheim
> >  
> > Contents:
> > 1. The Lure of Utopia: Socialist Everyday Spaces Breda Luthar and Maruša
> > Pušnik;      
> > 2. First and Last Emperor: Representations of the President, Bodies of
> > the Youth Bojana Videkanic;
> > 3. Celebrating Yugoslavia: The Visual Representation of State Holidays
> > Danka Ninković Slavnić;
> > 4. Officers without an Army: Memories of Socialism and Everyday
> > Strategies in Post‐Socialist Slovenia Tanja Petrović;
> > 5. European Sounds, Yugoslav Visions: Performing Yugoslavia at the
> > Eurovision Song Contest Dean Vuletic;
> > 6. Džuboks (Jukebox) – The First t Rock’n’roll Magazine in Socialist
> > Yugoslavia Radina Vučetić;
> > 7. A Tale of Two Subcultures: A Comparative Analysis of Hippie and Punk
> > Subcultures in Slovenia Gregor Tomc;
> > 8. Yugoslav Past in Film and Music: Yugoslav Interfilmic Referentiality
> > Martin PogacÌŒar;
> > 9. Flirting with Television in Socialism: Proletarian Morality and the
> > Lust for Abundance Maruša Pušnik;
> > 10. Sportsmen of Yugoslavia, Unite: Workers’ Sport between Leisure and
> > Work Gregor Starc;
> > 11. Adriatic for All: Summer Holidays in Croatia Igor Duda;
> > 12. “SOBE”: Privatizing Tourism on the Workers’ Riviera Karin
> > Taylor;
> > 13. Shame, Desire and Longing for the West: A Case Study of Consumption
> > Breda Luthar;
> > 14. Cooking in Socialist Slovenia: Housewives on the Road from a Bright
> > Future to an Idyllic Past Blanka Tivadar and Andreja Vezovnik;
> > 15. Žuži Jelinek: The Incredible Adventures of a Socialist Chanel Djurdja
> > Bartlett;
> > 16. A Face in the Market: Photography, Memory, and Nostalgia Hanno
> > Hardt.
> >  
> > Breda Luthar is Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Department of
> > Media and Communication Studies.
> > Maruša Pušnik is Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana,
> > Department of Media and Communication
> > Studies.