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Sounds of the Borderland is the first book-length study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia's war of independence from Yugoslavia. It extends existing cultural studies literature on music, politics and the state, which has largely been grounded in Western European and North American political systems. It also responds to an emerging fascination with the culture and politics of contemporary south-east Europe, expanding scholarship on the post-Yugoslav conflicts by going on to encompass significant social and political changes into the present day. The outbreak of war in 1991 saw almost every professional musici...
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Electrical sexual prowess is not the only change Kalman Gubica undergoes after being struck by lightning. Set in World War II Yugoslavia, Radio Siga transmits the story of this misunderstood man who is haunted by a mysterious voice that he cannot shake after that fateful lightning strike. Settling down with a female Russian soldier does not help quite the maddening messages in his head, nor does helping the resistance trying to keep at bay the Hungarian fascists and German Nazis who have occupied Yugoslavia. Darkly funny, Radio Siga is an exciting World War II novel told from a perspective not often encountered by English-language readers.
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