{"id":47004,"date":"2025-06-17T20:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=47004"},"modified":"2025-06-17T20:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:43:28","slug":"ana-hofman-socialism-now-singing-activism-after-yugoslavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=47004","title":{"rendered":"Ana Hofman, \u201eSocialism Now: Singing Activism after Yugoslavia\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Presents previously unpublished ethnographic material on music activism in the post-Yugoslav region from a participant-observer point of view<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Offers a unique perspective on the political potential of music and sound, drawing on the intersection between affect theory, Marxist theory, and post-socialist studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Employs a novel theoretical and conceptual approach of strategic amateurism that brings insight into theory production beyond Western\/Anglophone academia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Socialism Now: Singing Activism after Yugoslavia<\/em>, Ana Hofman embarks on a captivating journey through singing, songs, and other cultural expressions to trace the recent recuperation of socialist ideas and experiences in the post-Yugoslav context. Combining historical and ethnographic approaches, the book offers a nuanced account of the activities of the self-organized choirs that have emerged in the region 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.<br><br><em>Socialism Now<\/em> imparts a perspective on the politics of music and sound outside the usual understanding of social justice or social change. The books central concept, strategic amateurism, provides a unique perspective on the power of nonprofessional, communal leisure musical activities in contesting the pervasive commodification in all spheres of life. Through its in-depth sociopolitical and cultural analysis of contemporary forms of music activism, <em>Socialism Now<\/em> revalorizes the &#8220;lost&#8221; historical knowledge and lived experiences from the former Second World in envisioning music and sounds anti-capitalist political potential today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Acknowledgments<br><\/em>List of Acronyms<br>List of Figures<br>Guide to Companion Website<br>1. Singing Socialism Now<br>2. Singing (as) Activism<br>3. Sounding &#8220;All in One Voice&#8221;<br>4. A Repertoire of Revolution<br>5. Strategic Amateurism and the Politics of Leisure<br>6. Socialism Reimagined for Now<br><em>References<br><\/em>Indeks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ana Hofman <\/strong>is a senior research associate at the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Her research focuses on music, sound, and politics in socialist and post-socialist societies, with an emphasis on memory, affect, and activism. She is the author of numerous books, including <em>Staging Socialist Femininity: Gender Politics and Folklore Performance in Serbia <\/em>(2011) and <em>The New Lives of Partisan Songs<\/em> (2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/socialism-now-9780197576274?cc=hr&amp;lang=en&amp;#\">https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/socialism-now-9780197576274?cc=hr&amp;lang=en&amp;#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Iz medija:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jutarnji.hr\/kultura\/glazba\/antropologinja-za-jutarnji-mladi-jasno-osjecaju-razorne-posljedice-globalnog-neoliberalnog-kapitalizma-on-nije-15590721\">https:\/\/www.jutarnji.hr\/kultura\/glazba\/antropologinja-za-jutarnji-mladi-jasno-osjecaju-razorne-posljedice-globalnog-neoliberalnog-kapitalizma-on-nije-15590721<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-knjige","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hofman.jpg?fit=362%2C550&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52520,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52520","url_meta":{"origin":47004,"position":0},"title":"Predstavljanje knjige &#8220;Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History&#8221; u Zagrebu","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"17. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Pozivamo vas na predstavljanje knjige \"Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History\", autora Mislava \u00a0\u017ditka i Marka Grde\u0161i\u0107a (Routledge, 2026). 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