Zlatko Gall
Zlatko Gall is a Croatian journalist, commentator and rock critic from Split. Zlatko Gall is known as an
advocate for rock music as an expression of urban culture and liberal values. He sees rock music as the antithesis of turbo
folk which was associated with rural culture, conservative values, extreme
nationalism and right-wing politics in
former Yugoslavia. He often criticises pop and rock musicians
who add elements of folk and turbo folk to their repertoire in order to make their music more accessible to the public. For
example, in the newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija he famously wrote an article lambasting
the Ivan Zajc theatre in
References
- ^ C Baker (2006). "The Politics of Performance: Transnationalism and its Limits in Former Yugoslav Popular Music, 1999". Taylor & Francis.
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