| | CJR January/February 2005: The Paradox of Pink |
 | | The ties between turbofolk and organized crime reached their apotheosis with the 1995 marriage of the busty hit singer “Ceca” to Zeljko “Arkan” Raznatovic, a notorious paramilitary leader, crime boss, and occasional guest on Pink talk shows during the war. |
 | | Even if Pink was not an overtly “political station,” it became the center of a powerful cog in the Yugoslav wartime propaganda machine: Turbofolk music, a new sound that blended electronic dance rhythms with Serbian and Gypsy melodies and lyrics that ran from saccharine to nationalistic. |
 | | Turbofolk worked at cross purposes to the rock and roll that B92 played, which conjured a street-fighting antiestablishment tradition that had become a battle cry for opposition groups and a perceived threat to the regime. |
| www.cjr.org /issues/2005/1/manasek-paradox.asp (1222 words) |