Between home and the world : (banal) nationalism and representations of a nation in Slovenian folk-pop music

Šabec, Ksenija (author)

This paper examines the concept of banal nationalism as often unconscious, routine processes that nations reproduce on a daily basis. Banal nationalism is recognisable in the use of national symbols but also in language and culture. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether Slovenian folk-pop music is one of these processes, and in which ways and strategies we can detect its reproductive role in banal nationalism that on a daily basis reminds its listeners of their national identities. Methodologically, the article is based on the content and a textual analysis of compositions by three of the most often listened to folk-pop ensembles, demonstrating that the national narrative can be identified in a smaller proportion of all analysed compositions in three sections: the idea of nation as an imaginary community or home(land), national (auto)stereotypes, and patriotic feelings

• Language: English
• Keywords: banal nationalism, Slovenian folk-pop music, narod, stereotipi, domovina
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.06.2023
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 106-126
• Numbering: [Letn.] 39, [št.] 102
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-147135-a536bc5c-9672-cf18-8f2a-803c5bff4665
• UDC: [316.74:784.69]:[172.15+316.356.4](497.4)
• ISSN on article: 0352-3608
• DOI: 10.51936/dr.39.102.105-126
• COBISS.SI-ID: 156422403
• Publication date in RUL: 23.06.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Družboslovne razprave
• Shortened title: Družbosl. razpr.
• Publisher: Slovensko sociološko društvo, Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0352-3608
• COBISS.SI-ID: 7530242

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Med domom in svetom: (vsakdanji) nacionalizem in reprezentacije naroda v slovenski narodnozabavni glasbi

Abstract

Članek izhaja iz koncepta vsakdanjega nacionalizma kot pogosto neopaženih, nezavednih in rutinskih procesov, ki obstoječim nacijam omogočajo njihovo vsakdanjo reprodukcijo in ki niso prepoznavni samo v uporabi nacionalnih simbolov, ampak tudi v jeziku in kulturi. Namen prispevka je torej ugotoviti, ali je slovenska narodnozabavna glasba eden od teh procesov ter v katerih načinih in strategijah prepoznavamo njeno reprodukcijsko vlogo vsakdanjega nacionalizma, s katerimi svoje poslušalce, občinstva vsakodnevno spominja na njihovo nacionalno identiteto. Metodološko je članek utemeljen na analizi vsebine in tekstualni analizi besedil treh najbolj poslušanih slovenskih narodnozabavnih ansamblov, ki pokažeta, da je nacionalni narativ mogoče prepoznati v manjšem deležu vseh analiziranih pesmi v treh tematskih sklopih: ideji naroda kot zamišljene skupnosti, doma, domovine; nacionalnih (avto)stereotipih in nacionalnih oziroma patriotskih občutkih

• Keywords: banalni nacionalizem, slovenska narodna pop glasba, stereotipi, domovina

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J6-2582
• Name: Slovenska narodnozabavna glasba kot politika: percepcije, recepcije in identitete