Music and a Sociocultural Context: A Research in the Reasons for Turbo Folk and the Newly Composed Folk Music Popularity

U ovom se radu analizira povijest turbofolk glazbe, odnosno njezin nastanak, širenje i integracija u popularnu glazbu i kulturu država bivše SFRJ, te kako je ta vrsta glazbe postala sastavni dio života na Balkanu a posebno u Hrvatskoj. Isto tako, u provedenim istraživačkim intervjuima pokušat će se pokazati da je takav tip glazbe itekako nekvalitetan te da bi se trebao ''maknuti iz ušiju običnog glazbenog konzumenta''. Autor rada također pokušava objasniti zašto je kultura slušanja glazbe izgubljena u današnjim vremenima, a prije je bila itekako cijenjena.This thesis analyzes the history of turbofolk music, its emergence, expansion and integration into the popular music of the former SFRY states, and that this type of music has become an integral part of life in the Balkans and especially in Croatia. Likewise, in the conducted interviews, it will be shown that such a type of music is of very poor-quality and that it should be "removed from the ears of ordinary music listeners". The author of the thesis also tries to explain why the culture of music listening is lost in contemporary times, while it was previously highly valued