In this bachelor thesis, I deal with a phenomenon of the more recent Slovene art movement, the multimedia artist group Laibach. It first surfaced in the 1980s in Yugoslavia, and later also made a name for itself abroad, mainly by playing the role of a constant disruptive presence in the Slovene social discourse. Laibach gained general acceptance and global popularity with the album Opus Dei which also represented a deviation from the band's initial principles. In my research, I mainly focused on the group's relation to literary and art movements of the 20th century, and the roles of individual lyrics, which can be original works or contain popular music adaptations, even be political speeches or partisan poems. The only thing most pre-existing texts have in common is the fact that their meaning is often transformed in the context of the Laibach Kunst and their artistic merit can, as a consequence, be altered significantly, as I will try to establish in this thesis.
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