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EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF TUBRO-FOLK SUBCULTURE

DARKO ILIN

BULEVAR ODLOBOĐENJA 205

INTRODUCTION

Turbo-folk reffered to the term primarrily to the sphere of
popular music in which the traditional – folk rhytm merged with
elements of pop, rock, techno and dance music. No one can surely
say when was the breaking point in which its emergence and
expansion happened, but the period of its emergence, also, the
stages of turbo-folks infiltration in the popular culture and its
mixing with other genres can be followed. In time, it gains huge
popularity and becomes the mass entertainment. It’s important Chart 1. Results of the survey
how turbo-folk music was largely introduced into people’s daily
lives and why that happened. Turbo-folk as a music genre When we take into consideration both age groups , we notice a
generates from neo-folk, newly composed folk music which difference in answers.
became popular in the sixties and the seventies and it represents
the use of traditional music and its partial commmercialisation
with keeping the original feeling. Turbo-folk generates as a post-
modern mixture of various styles, influences of the western techno
and dance rhytms but also the oriental and greek motifs. The goal
is to give a review of the poetics of turbo-folk subculture and its
tranfomations with social and cultural surroundings from the
beginning until today.

METHOD OF OPERATION

In this research there has been a survey with a goal to see what
were people’s attitudes on the cause of turbo-folk’s popularity and Chart 2. Results according to age group
it’s supremacy in media. The examinees were asked a CONCLUSION
question:,,What is the main reason that lead to turbo-folk being
popular?“ with four available answers and a posibility to write This survey came to a conclusion that the attitudes of the younger
their own opinion. The answers were: a) political monopoly, b) age group on this matter are devided between the cultural
cultural revolution, need for new trends, c) economic crysis and revolution and the degradation of moral while most of the older
sanctions and d) degradation of moral values. The examinees were examinees answered that the cause was the degradation of moral,
separated in two age groups, the first between ages of 15 and 30, but a big amount of them also answered that the cause was
and the second one between ages of 31 and 45. The survey took political monopoly or economic crysis. Older examinees didn’t
place between 12/02/2015 and 19/02/2015. There were 43 think that the need for new trends caused the popularity of turbo-
examinees of which 29 belong to the first age group and 14 folk and there we can see the difference in the attitudes of
belong to the second one. younger and of older people considering the importance of the
need for new trends.
RESULTS
LITERATURE
The results of the survey of both age groups are shown in the next [1] J. Đorđević; Postkultura : uvod u studije kulture, Clio, Beograd
chart. None of the examinees disagreed with the provided 2009.,
answers.
[2] M. Grujić; Community and the popular : Women, Nation and
Turbo-folk in Post-Yugoslav Serbia, Central European University
Press, Budapest 2009