Posts Tagged ‘musica yugoslava’

Jadranka Stojakovic know sevdalinka

Written by Brigitte Vasallo. Posted in Bosnia, Music

More than a decade after the former Yugoslavia disappeared (taking with it so outrageous to thousands of its citizens) cultural similarities between the fragments that became independent and the memories of several generations are still the proof of the existence of a common past and rooted closer than many would like.

Miracle 1: Eurovision 1981: Jadranka Stojakovic

Written by Brigitte Vasallo. Posted in Bosnia, In defense of Eurovision, Music

Countless times, My Friend s, and others are not so, I've been called terrible things because they are fan of Eurovision. I must say that many of my friends are musicians, musicologists and music critics, which gives them moral authority about my musical tastes.

I therefore Achanta, on, On the contrary. I'm willing to prove that Eurovision, if you look right eye, is full of little miracles.

Miracle 1: Year 1981. Representing Yugoslavia, Silk Memic Vajta. Choirs: Jadranka Stojakovic

Stojakovic – Bregovic:the odd couple

Written by Brigitte Vasallo. Posted in Bosnia

Anyone who knows their careers today (Jadranka Stojakovic singing haikus in Japan, Goran Bregovic appropriating Balkan gypsy repertoire) hallucinate hearing this “what” signed together in the years 80 twentieth century, when Sarajevo was a huge rock music center inflamed.

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