Turbo-folk music is the most controversial form of popular culture in the new states of former Yugoslavia. Theoretically ambitious and innovative, this book is a new account of popular music that has been at the centre of national, political and cultural debates for over two decades. Beginning with 1970s Socialist Yugoslavia, UroA A voro explores the cultural and political paradoxes of turbo-folk: described as backward music, whose misogynist and Serb nationalist iconography represents a threat to cosmopolitanism, turbo-folk s iconography is also perceived as a genuinely Balkan form of...