{"product_id":"metropolitan-belgrade-culture-and-class-in-interwar-yugoslavia-paperback","title":"Metropolitan Belgrade: Culture and Class in Interwar Yugoslavia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJovana Babovic\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of theMihajlo Misa Djordjevic Book Prizeawarded by the North American Society for Serbian Studies\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eMetropolitan Belgrade\u003c\/i\u003e presents a sociocultural history of the city as an entertainment mecca during the 1920s and 1930s. It unearths the ordinary and extraordinary leisure activities that captured the attention of urban residents and considers the broader role of popular culture in interwar society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the capital of the newly unified Yugoslavia, Belgrade became increasingly linked to transnational networks after World War I, as jazz, film, and cabaret streamed into the city from abroad during the early 1920s. Belgrade's middle class residents readily consumed foreign popular culture as a symbol of their participation in European metropolitan modernity. The pleasures they derived from entertainment, however, stood at odds with their civic duty of promoting highbrow culture and nurturing the Serbian nation within the Yugoslav state. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ultimately, middle-class Belgraders learned to reconcile their leisured indulgences by defining them as bourgeois refinement. But as they endowed foreign entertainment with higher cultural value, they marginalized Yugoslav performers and their lower-class patrons from urban life. \u003ci\u003eMetropolitan Belgrade\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the Europeanization of the capital's middle class and how it led to spatial segregation, cultural stratification, and the destruction of the Yugoslav entertainment industry during the interwar years.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJovana Babovic\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian with a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722475016255,"sku":"9780822965350","price":106.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/47ca68c2fcb6d6dd2963beb44425a73e.webp?v=1765095888","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/metropolitan-belgrade-culture-and-class-in-interwar-yugoslavia-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}