Opatijski festival i razvoj zabavne glazbe u Jugoslaviji (1958–1962) ; The opatija festival and the development of popular music in Yugoslavia (1958–1962)

Abstract

Published: 22 July 2016 ; Opatijski je festival osnovan 1958., gotovo čitavo desetljeće nakon što su laki i zabavni kulturni žanrovi otvoreno društveno i ideološki prihvaćeni. Analiza kulturno-teorijskih postavki i preokupacija te odnosa prema službenoj kulturnoj politici ključna je za razumijevanje popularnosti zabavne glazbe u jugoslavenskom socijalističkom društvu. Počevši od redovitoga emitiranja na radijskim stanicama, osnivanjem mnogobrojnih festivala zabavne glazbe, žanr doživljava svoj vrhunac. Pritom Opatijski festival funkcionira kao svejugoslavenski i nadnacionalni, pa samim time i dobiva najviše pozornosti, pogotovo jer s vremenom zabavna glazba dobiva i na međunarodnom značenju, barem kao prikladni predstavnik jugoslavenskoga društva u inozemstvu. Mini jubilej, tj. obilježavanje pete obljetnice festivala 1962., služio je zbog toga i za analizu onoga što se na zabavno-glazbenom planu uspjelo ostvariti, ali se naziru i problemi koji se ostavljaju u naslijeđe festivalima koji slijede. ; The Opatija Festival was founded in 1958, nearly a decade after soft and entertaining cultural genres had been socially-open and ideologically accepted. The problem of creating the perfect prototype of melody and the text of a popular song was not easy to solve, so popular music had been struggling for more than a decadewith same issues as in the beginning. The analysis of cultural and theoretical assumptions, preoccupations and attitudes towards the official cultural policy is the key to understand the popularity of pop music in the Yugoslav socialist society. Starting from the regular broadcast on radio stations, by establishing numerous festivals of pop music, this genre reached its peak. Furthermore the Opatija Festival has functioned as an all Yugoslav and transnational festival, thus gaining the most attention, especially since with passage of time pop music gets an international importance, at least as a suitable representative of the Yugoslav society abroad. A mini-jubilee, i.e. the marking of the 5th anniversary of the Festival in 1962, has served for this purpose to analyse the achievements in the entertainment and music plan, but also to perceive the problems which would befall the future festivals, primarily the Adriatic Melodies in Split. The dominance of "sea themes" in pop music during the 1960s and later was ultimately the result of a number of attempts by composers and songwriters at the first editions of the Opatija Festivals.Therefore, one can conclude that pop music in the early 1960s finally gained its specific form which successfully represented the pulse of the modern society, and that was the collective cultural discovery of the sea.