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		turbofolk has its roots in the late sixties when lots of yugoslav went abroad to work in germany, france, switzerland etc. and then original traditional folkmusic was transformed and that was called new composed folkmusic.
		so turbofolk is popular in the countries surrounding yugoslavia; in a way it was an attack on the cultural life of those nations because it destroyed the local musicproduction; in serbia itself for instance the rock scene nearly vanished.
		turbofolk is music not for the peasants but for urban people and it keeps their minds away from the real problems.
	users.mur.at /ft/personal/yugo3 (1425 words)

	Bringing Down a Dictator: Turbo-Nationalism \| PBS
		But the marriage of one of Interpol's most wanted criminals to the queen of turbofolk — a tacky blend of nationalistic folk tunes and techno dance music — was also the consummation of another relationship: a complex symbiosis among pop culture, state-controlled media, and the new criminal elite.
		Unlike the agitprop branch of neofolk, most turbofolk lyrics were not overtly political.
		Turbofolk videos, the core programming of new television stations TV Pink and TV Palma, celebrated the glamour and luxury of the new criminal elite, with most featuring beautiful, scantily-clad, provocatively dancing women.
	www.pbs.org /weta/dictator/serbia/turbonationalism.html (667 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Today the country's urbanity is reasserting itself with a spontaneous flair in clubs, art, youth culture, the media, and not least, politics.
		Turbofolk was more than an assault on the eardrums.
		The renowned turbofolk star, Ceca, married the notorious war criminal and gangster Arkan, who was gunned down last year in a Belgrade hotel.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_20001220_7_eng.txt (822 words)

	CJR January/February 2005: The Paradox of Pink
		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.
		Turbofolk helped reposition traditional values as part of the nationalist agenda, but it also helped to legitimate in pop culture an emerging class of paramilitary war criminals and gangsters.
		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.
	www.cjr.org /issues/2005/1/manasek-paradox.asp (4061 words)

	In These Times 25/07 -- Serbia's New New Wave
		Now this country's urbanity is re-asserting itself with spontaneous flair, in Belgrade music clubs as well as elsewhere across the country in the art world, youth culture, media and, not least, politics.
		In Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia, the obnoxious repetitive beat of turbofolk, a synthetic mesh of techno and folk, drowned out the clever lyrics and catchy guitar riffs of rock groups that 10 years ago boasted followings across all of Yugoslavia.
		The renowned turbofolk star, Ceca, was the wife of the notorious war criminal Arkan, who was gunned down last year in a Belgrade hotel.
	www.inthesetimes.com /issue/25/07/hockenos2507.html (887 words)

	City and the Politics of Memory
		And at last, the effect of the double reflection is the blurry recognition of political kitsch in the amassing volumes of popular construction that left many traces in new institutions of the 90' [like banks built on pyramid schemes and new churches].
		It was very much hated and therefore neglected by the intellectuals and as a result survived as popularly defined force of national culture.
		What drew Turbofolk architecture close to free trade in globalization was an immense freedom from restriction in appropriation [sampling] shapes coming from an array of inarticulate memories about historic form and its meaning.
	www.normalgroup.net /turbo/press-01.htm (789 words)

	Boston.com / Travel / Balkans in the balance
		This, too, was a legacy of the 1990s, summed up in a word: turbofolk.
		Turbofolk is a genre of music, a kind of Balkan rhythm married to techno, but it is also a lifestyle, which, as one prominent cultural activist put it, critically, means ''quick money, good cars, and good-looking women," values cultivated under the Milosevic regime.
		A sharp edge to this world came after a short walk across a shaky bridge to the door of Acapulco, where the well-heeled clients got patted down for firearms.
	www.boston.com /travel/articles/2003/10/05/balkans_in_the_balance?pg=3 (619 words)

	NonStarving Artists - Belgrade Art Inc. at SECESSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This work is about the relationship of past and the present and directly refers to the political system of the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, where politics were not democratic, but more liberal than in the rest of socialist Eastern Europe, allowing or sometimes even supporting critical, conceptual art.
		JK (2003) by Milica Ruzicic is a life-size sculpture, which presents a "real" Turbofolk singer exaggerated into an icon.
		Turbofolk, a loud combination of popular folk songs and contemporary sound production is a very popular form of music, which has been dominating Belgrade's entertainment media since the 1990s.
	www.nonstarvingartists.com /News/ImagedNewsItem.2004-06-30.3702.html (1085 words)

	Central Europe Review - Balkan Hardcore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This form fuses love songs and older folk tunes that are either implicitly or explicitly ethnically Serbian with contemporary dance music.
		Several meanings of "hardcore" are relevant, including pornography, stubborn political intransigence or an unassimilable core of enjoyment, but the most useful parallels come from music.
		Turbofolk and Serb dance music are stylistically close to British "happy hardcore." In terms of atmosphere, both are based on a ceaseless rush of kitschy, militant (or even nihilist) self-consuming, optimism, combining high tempo beats with excessively sugary melodic motifs.
	www.ce-review.org /00/24/monroe24.html (3564 words)

	Sarajevo New Year - The Traveler - July 2004
		Above the banging and screeching of fireworks, Turbofolk blasts over the speakers.
		The cacophony emanates from a terrifying female singer who has nails to rival Freddy Krueger and hair straight from an American soap opera.
		From the procession of singers that follow, this would seem to be the standard uniform for Turbofolk stars.
	www.touristtravel.com /article0704_sarajevo.htm (1124 words)

	TIMEeurope.com: Europe -- Reinventing Ceca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The booming reggae bass and slow tempo of dub is strictly opusteno (or cool) Belgrade.
		It's the Belgrade of Svetlana Velickovic Raznatovic — better known all over the Balkans as the turbofolk diva Ceca.
		A singer from a South Serbian village, Ceca quickly became a turbofolk icon.
	www.time.com /time/europe/eu/daily/0,13716,265501,00.html (847 words)

	News @ Serbian Unity Congress \| 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His highly disciplined band of "Tigers" was involved in the ethnic cleansing of swathes of Croatia and Bosnia as Yugoslavia fell apart.
		Arkan's cult status in a dysfunctional society was sealed when he married Ceca, the bright young starlet of the "turbofolk" music circuit, in 1995.
		Natalia had moved abroad the previous year, first to Italy and then to Athens, where Arkan bought an expensive villa for her and their four children.
	news.suc.org /bydate/2000/Nov_14/2.html (702 words)

	Draxblog: Ceca ante portas
		I remember reading a story of how Ceca was on a T.V. talk show wearing a very lovely gold necklace and a Muslim lady from Bosnia called and said 'I like yoru necklace, it looks like Arkan did too, for he stole it from me!'
		I can't say I like turbofolk, real folk music for sure, but not that dreadful stuff.
		It's like the narco-corridos the Mexican people go in for now, not as good as the real thing at all.
	draxisblogging.blogspot.com /2005/01/ceca-ante-portas.html (757 words)

	TIMEeurope.com: Europe \| Reinventing Ceca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ceca's three-hour concert at the Red Star Belgrade soccer stadium last week drew close to 80,000 fans.
		Ceca's story is an uncanny mix of music, politics and crime in Serbia.
		This musical genre — rooted in pop updates of traditional Serbian songs — quickly morphed into a shrill dance music.
	www.time.com /time/europe/eu/printout/0,9869,265501,00.html (762 words)

	CER \| Yugoslavia: Belgradeyard DJ collective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Limited by a serious lack of both freedom and resources, Belgrade's music scene stagnated and became strangely homogeneous under the hegemonic rule of Slobodan Milošević.
		The grossly nationalistic turbofolk of silicone-injected, mob wife Ceca and her ilk was the order of the day, and it was served up on a silver platter to the masses.
		All the kids that were listening to turbofolk now are going to clubs, taking "E" and jumping all night long.
	www.ce-review.org /02/3/young3.html (2085 words)

	Slovenia 2004 review
		EMA 2004 starts with an aerobics class carried out to an even more turbofolked remix of Every way that I can, only for them to be pushed off stage by another gang of girls all dressed as Avril Lavigne.
		They're shoved over in turn by the tap dance society and the belly dance club.
		Following Regina is Tulio Furlanic, a sixtysomething guy with a moustache and seaside-kiosk dark glasses singing Istrian turbofolk (something I wouldn't even have expected them to come up with in Dora) and bouncing about (chorus: 'Oh, all you chicks, I'm the right guy for you').
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/1548/eurosong/slovenia04rev.htm (1183 words)

	Steve Koppelman's Catalogue of Poorly Catalogued Things, Which Is Also Called "hatless.com": Tenuously ...
		He was a mobster and presumed war criminal.
		She was the reining diva of turbofolk, the catchy amalgam of eurodisco, Balkan folk music and xenophobic lyrics that was soundtrack to the era.
		Together, they were part Bean and Jen, part Adolf and Eva.
	www.hatless.com /blog/archive/000314.html (270 words)

	Independent, The (London): The Serbs must choose: Kosovo or Europe
		Belgrade, heart of Slobodan Milosevic's sinister kingdom, seemed on my return, transformed in appearance and in spirit.
		"Turbofolk" singers - minstrels to Milosevic's warriors who then dominated the airwaves with tunes of love and glory - had been all but banished from both radio and television.
		More striking still was the change in the tone in Milosevic's once- frenzied media about the non-Serbs of former Yugoslavia.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040322/ai_n12774885 (973 words)

	Arts
		Some of Wednesday's selections included oddities of minor key jingles and chimes, such as Maslbury's "Rampage of the Hellish Blobs," a three-part composition.
		However, Davis's "Turbofolk I" leaned slightly more toward what an uneducated TIMARA listener might slot into a Techno or Jungle-like classification.
		Davis's work began with a raindrop-like recording, followed by digital melody and a steady pulse line.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/1996.09.27/arts/timara.html (558 words)

	egea forum - egea Messages - travelling to Congress in Serbia by car. Who wants to join?
		PS: Kayah's (from Poland) and Bregovic's 'Prawy do lewego' was the number 1 hit of the AC 2004.
		Or Yugoslav national anthems, which will bring back memories of a very nice trip to EGEA New Years Party in Maruszyna (PL).
		With the famous 'Turbofolk', Kayah i Bregovic and whatsoever.
	egea.geog.uu.nl /viewthread.php?tid=1383&page=1 (737 words)

	YakimaGulagLiteraryGazett: OK u skvarz!
		I was like sort of singing along and wished I had it to play loud when the neighbors play music that is too loud.
		Seriously that or Turbofolk or the louder varieties of sevdelinki.
		Anyway it's been face freezing cold in the mornings but nice later in the day.
	yakimagulagliterarygazett.blogspot.com /2005/02/ok-u-skvarz.html (281 words)

	Wired 11.09: View
		When that happens, you may well get things like well, like this remarkable souvenir I bought for about $1 in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
		It's a pirated audiotape of "turbofolk" music by Ceca (pronounced "Tsetsa"), the busty pop-star widow of notorious Balkan war criminal Zeljko "Arkan" Raznatovic.
		Ceca is in prison at the moment, mostly because her latest boyfriend allegedly helped assassinate the prime minister of Serbia to protect the illicit revenue of Belgrade's Zemun gang.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.09/view.html?pg=4 (805 words)

	News @ Serbian Unity Congress \| 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But the group's aims to strip away the state-imposed conformity of the Milosevic years.
		As part of the "culture work," the group will invite foreign rock bands, who can replace "turbofolk" music, the hard-to-define mixture of styles that was favored by the nouveau riche.
		They also plan book signings to stimulate intellectual life.
	news.suc.org /bydate/2000/Oct_20/3.html (597 words)

	egea forum - egea Messages - Turbo Folk?
		I'm also voting for the turbofolk Happy Hour!
		It's a part of serbian music scene and thousands of people are listening to it...I heard that Ceca even planned a European tour....ok, maybe that's too much!
		maybe combine the turbofolk workshop with the slivovitsj one
	egea.geog.uu.nl /viewthread.php?tid=1393&page=5 (489 words)

	La ESCena: The Collective E
		In 15 words or less: You can't want extra - this much is enough!
		But really?: I'm still surprised this wasn't Serbian turbofolk
		What she said: Snovi umorni nas su cekali, ali mi nismo zaspali
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/1548/eurosong/colle.htm (802 words)

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