In the mid-'60s, Mexican mariachi music ruled the airwaves in Yugoslavia. Singers sported charro suits and sombreros, typical mariachi garb, with typically Slavic names. The style was known as Yu-Mex, ...

I wonder where the story begins for this exploration of Croatian music. Maybe with my mother’s recollections of a holiday on Lošinj Island in Yugoslavia, in August 1985, seven months before I was born ...

During the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1980s and '90s, rock music was an essential form of political protest. It was also a critical antidote to the wars, hardship and mass emigration that ...

Serbia is in the spotlight right now. In November 2024, the collapse of a newly renovated railway station roof in Novi Sad, which resulted in 15 deaths, ignited widespread protests across the country.