LED CEPELIN, DEDA ĐURA, PANKERI I ZLATNI PAPAGAJ: POTKULTURE U JUGOSLAVIJI U RALJAMA AUTENTIČNOSTI

Abstract

In this paper we deal with the ways in which a social phenomenon such as a subculture automatically took on local meanings and significance for the dominant culture of socialist Yugoslavia as a result of top-down cultural transfer between Great Britain and Yugoslavia. In doing so, we focus on the public (self)perception of the punk subculture in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In this sense, specific was not only the perception of Yugoslav punk (although it also reflected the usual responses to punk in Britain), but also its “incomprehensibility” and “subversiveness”. The paper concludes that the emergence and development of punk subculture is a significant example of cultural transfer in the Europe-Yugoslavia relationship, but also an indicator of how the ways in which transcultural transposition of symbolic forms of expression necessarily implies rejections and additions to the (often imagined) original.