Socialism Now

"Socialism Now. Singing Activism after Yugoslavia traces the activities of self-organized singing collectives that have been recuperating a repertoire of Yugoslav and international revolutionary, partisan, and workers' songs, and contemporary socially-engaged pieces in the last two decades. Their singing activism demasks the privatization, dispossession, and political and social fragmentation that, instead of a promised capitalist dreamland, have shaped lives in the region after the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia. Combining historical and ethnographic approaches, Socialism Now offers a nuanced account of collective singing as the way of organizing against the adverse effects of neoliberalism in its potentialities and limits"--