Metropolitan Belgrade : culture and class in interwar Yugoslavia /

Metropolitan Belgrade : culture and class in interwar Yugoslavia /

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Author / Creator:Babovic, Jovana, author.
Imprint:Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
©2018
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Series in Russian and East European studies.
Subject:
Cultural industries -- Serbia -- Belgrade -- History -- 20th century.
Social stratification -- Serbia -- Belgrade -- History -- 20th century.
Cultural industries.
Intellectual life.
Social stratification.
Belgrade -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Serbia -- Belgrade.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12020021
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ISBN:9780822983392
0822983397
0822965356
9780822965350
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-246) and index.
Summary:Metropolitan Belgrade presents a sociocultural history of the city as an entertainment mecca during the 1920s and 1930s. It unearths the ordinary and extraordinary leisure activities that captured the attention of urban residents and considers the broader role of popular culture in interwar society. As the capital of the newly unified Yugoslavia, Belgrade became increasingly linked to transnational networks after World War I, as jazz, film, and cabaret streamed into the city from abroad during the early 1920s. Belgrade's middle class residents readily consumed foreign popular culture as a symbol of their participation in European metropolitan modernity. The pleasures they derived from entertainment, however, stood at odds with their civic duty of promoting highbrow culture and nurturing the Serbian nation within the Yugoslav state. Ultimately, middle-class Belgraders learned to reconcile their leisured indulgences by defining them as bourgeois refinement. But as they endowed foreign entertainment with higher cultural value, they marginalized Yugoslav performers and their lower-class patrons from urban life. Metropolitan Belgrade tells the story of the Europeanization of the capital's middle class and how it led to spatial segregation, cultural stratification, and the destruction of the Yugoslav entertainment industry during the interwar years.
Other form:Print version: 0822965356 9780822965350

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