Folk-step? NeuBalkan trash-hop? Oriental-Core? What-the-fuck? Oh, it must be the (in)famous Shazalakazoo! The duo comprised of Scratchmaster Uce and MC Djura, has been making music since the late 1990s in various incarnations, from improvised radio shows to concerts and club…
McDonald’s in the Balkans: a brief history From a source of national pride to a symbol of US imperialism, the American fast food chain has left its mark in the Balkans
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The Soviet erotic alphabet picture book from 1931 This precious discovery from the vaults of Stalinism sheds new light on the supposedly sexually repressive communist society of the former S...
Yu-Mex: Yugoslav Mexican Music of the 1950’s After the Yugo-Soviet relations broke down in 1948, the Yugoslav authorities were looking for an alternative source of cultural inspiration....
Geeks behind the Iron Curtain: Yugoslav tech-socialism and the imaginary future Kristian Benic’s book digs out an impressive bulk of geeky stories not just about Commodores and Spectrums, but the Socialist Federal Republ...
