BALKAN AS A METAPHOR IN THE FILM COMPOSITION OFGORAN BREGOVIC
by Nela Trifkovic (Nela Trifković)
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BALKAN MUSIC IN SOUNDTRACK COMPOSITION: a metaphor of theatrical conflict.
Definition of terms: cultural approaches to theory and established research terminology
Ethnic Music and its creative application in soundtracks – models for the developed research framework
CREATIVE EXPRESSION IN PLURALISTIC SOCIETIES:Relevant history of the Balkans and the future of the Yugoslav States
Nationalism in music: pluralist and dialectic styles
YUGOSLAV MUSIC OR MUSIC IN YUGOSLAVIA ?
THE LAND OF SOUTHERN SLAVS
CREATIVE SOURCES AND INFLUENCES IN THE YUGOSLAVIA-TO-BE
SARAJEVO – BOSNIAN VERSION OF BORGES’ ALEPH
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY YUGOSLAV MUSICAL “PATRIOTISM”AS “NATIONALISM” DURING THE SOCIALIST REGIME
MUSIC AND POLITICS IN COMMUNIST AND WAR-TORN YUGOSLAVIA: Provocative and successful Genres through the ethno-rock of “White Button” and the musical endem called the “Newly Composed Folk”
“WHITE BUTTON” – THE MOST EFFORTLESSLY PRO-YUGOSLAV ROCK BAND OF ALL TIMES
“WHITE BUTTON” – RELATED BAND HISTORYAND ITS CONNECTIONS TO BREGOVIC’S FUTURE MUSICAL CONCEPTS
WHITE BUTTON” – THE FAVOURITE MUSICAL BUTTON ON EVERY YUGOSLAV’S COAT
“WHITE BUTTON” AND THE POLITICS OF POP AND ROCK MUSICIN THE COMMUNIST YUGOSLAVIA DURING THE 1970s AND 1980s
SUBCULTURE – THE THIRD OPTION
POPULAR FOLK- AN ENDEMIC MUSICAL VIRUS OF YUGOSLAVIA
DIFFERENT GENRES AND THEIR MUSICAL INTENTION:ISSUES OF MUSICAL PURPOSE AND MUSICAL ESSENCE – “THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HYBRIDITY”
GYPSY FILMS AND RELATED SOUNDTRACKS:culture specific genres as bases for further conceptual frameworks
GYPSY FILMS IN YUGOSLAVIA
EMIR KUSTURICA – GADJO DILO OF THE YUGOSLAV FILM SCENE
GATLIF AND KUSTURICA – A ROMA AND A GADJE DIRECTOR
MUSIC FOR KUSTURICA’S AND OTHER YUGOSLAV FILMS ABOUT THE GYPSIES
CONCEPTUAL CONDITIONING AND ANALYSIS OUTLINE
DOM ZA VESANJE (TIME OF THE GYPSIES) - Synopsis
ROMA AND GADJE PRINCIPLES IN BREGOVIC’S SOUNDTRACK FOR TIME OF THE GYPSIES
Other functions of traditional music in the Time of the Gypsies
Music as a tool of establishing setting
Ethnic music and traditional elements as a composer’s sources of inspiration
Alo mange liloro (Ederlezi Avela) the second important theme
Source and Background Music
Internal-external cultural perspective
CHAPTER IV - RECONTEXTUALISATION:Bregovic’s soundtrack conceptualisation for Kusturica’s Balkanised American debut
KUSTURICA’S NON-GYPSY FILMS AND BREGOVIC’S RELEVANT SOUNDTRACKS:THE GYPSY CONCEPTUALISATION AND THE “INWARD SARAJEVAN PRINCIPLE”
Introduction
Visual recontextualisation – Balkan and Gypsies as a metaphor
Arizona Dream – the complex ingredients of a doubly ethnic soundtrack
Kusturica’s dramatic topics – inside the edges of the society
Traditional elements and folk music
DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND FOLK ELEMENTS
Function I – Ethnic music as the composer’s source of inspiration
Function II – traditional music as a tool of for establishing setting
Function III – conceptual principles of the theatrical conflict expressed through the metaphoric use of traditional music and folk elements in soundtrack writing
Kusturica’s Balkanised American conceptualisation
Metaphorical duplicity – Balkanisation of both “Orientalism” and “Occidentalism”
“Orientalism” according to the “fantasy principle”
The “Oriental fantasy” portrayed through the traditional Balkan sound
Thematic Connections between Kusturica’s Film Topics and Bregovic’s Traditional Musical Choices – Jana’s House as Grace’s House
Internal-external conflict perspective
CHAPTER V - METAPHOR: Bregovic’s Soundtrack Conceptualisation for a foreign production
QUEEN MARGOT - Synopsis
Traditional elements and traditional music
Source and background music
Function I – traditional music as the composer’s source of inspiration
Function II –traditional music as a tool of establishing setting
Function III – conceptual principles of the theatrical conflict expressed through the metaphorical use of traditional music and folk elements in soundtrack writing
Hypothesis
Analysis application and process discussion
Musical and dramatic symbolism of Rondinella
Rere and Ganga
Symbolic Qualities of Rondinella – Two Circles and Mandorla
The symbolism and importance of Canto Nero – “Orientalism” as the Cult of Black Madonna
Compositional Techniques as Unifying Audio Conceptual Elements
Margot’s conceptual conversion – the visual and factual verses the audio-conceptual
Queen Margot – a French production that follows the “inward Sarajevan principle”
Bregovic’s musical portrayal of character duplicity – Margot as a representative example
Internal-external cultural and conflict perspectives
CHAPTER VI CONCLUSION: Metaphoric use of Balkan Music as Bregovic Compositional Formulae;loss of mother-tongue and development of recycling and collage techniques
RECONTEXTUALISATION OF KUSTURICA’S THEATRICAL DEVICESAS CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS FOR BREGOVIC’S SOUNDTRACK COMPOSITION
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BREGOVIC’S MUSIC –SOUND SYNTHESIS OF THE BALKANS
Brutal Realism and Explicit Emotionalism
Bregovic – the contraversial cultural ambassador and his metaphoric recontextualisation
CHAPTER VII DOCUMENTATION OF THE PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES AND THE OUTLINEOF THE LINKS BETWEEN THEORETICAL RESEARCH AND CREATIVE APPLICATIONS
THE LARGE-SCALE PROJECT: ITS NATURE AND ASSOCIATED ISSUES
On the poet Vasko Popa, his work and its ideology
Give Me Back My Rags
The Musical Adaptation of the Work – Songs and Narratives
The Architecture of the Musical Setting
THE ENSEMBLE
Weddings and Funerals Band
Ash Randomly
MINOR PROJECTS
Valhalla
Give Me Back My Rags in Valhalla
Si la muerte (If Death)Spanish version of Koren ti i krv i krunu (Damn Your Root and Blood and Crown)
Spanish Song in Scandinavian Mythology
Sybil in a Suitcase [a cabaret odyssey]
Sybil/Sibelline/Sibilochka and Machka/La Gata (Sybil and the Cat)
Supplica a mia madre (Plea to My Mother) - tonglen-[Equinox jam session]
VARIOUS PERFORMANCE CONDITIONS AND DIFFERENT PERFORMANCE OUTCOMESOF THE LARGE-SCALE PROJECT
Song-cycles – traditional large-scale journey works
The interactive qualities between the project and the thesis:questions that developed from compositions and music that was written as a result of research
“Orientalism” and “Occidentalism” in Vasko Popa’s poetry“Damn Your Root and Blood and Crown” as an exemplar
Epilogue
Goran Bregovc and Nela Trifkovic
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