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approach. As this results in a more or less comprehensive, coherent externalisations of memory,
that in fact do tell a story, I approach these blogs as cases of digital storytelling.
The Sounds of Yugoslavia – Jugozvuk
The blog ZVUCI JUGOSLAVIJE – SOUNDS OF YUGOSLAVIA (hereafter Jugozvuk) is managed
by Aktivista and presents an extraordinary collection of music. 176 In selecting what he blogs about,
Aktivista is very indiscriminate and posts music that spans popular, rock, classical, folk music,
etc. In addition he also supplies other types of various pop-historical materials such as newspapers
and magazine clippings, etc. The blog as a whole is his made-public ‗obsession‘ with the
‗Yugoslav past in audiovision,‘ and represents a non-negligible contribution to creating and
promoting vernacular renarrativisations and remediations of the past in DME.
The blog opens with a mission statement:
We‘re introducing You to the sounds of the old Yugoslavia, music, sports, theatre,
politics, literature, propaganda, commercials, all in the form of sound. Everything
that once made up Tito‘s Yugoslavia tells its story here before you. There are
many stories about Yugoslavia and all of them are beautiful. You are welcome as
well to tell the stories and we‘ll publish them. YUGOSLAVIA is always a positive
inspiration [transl.]. Here on this weblog you can hear and watch the diverse
sounds of former YUGOSLAVIA [original in English]. 177
This statement delimits the scope, aims and the ambition of the blogger‘s endeavours and
concomitantly makes an identity statement: it posits the blogger as a dedicated preserver and
distributor of Yugoslav musical past which is invariantly viewed positively. This attitude informs
the entire blog and is also reflected in indiscriminate blogging about different genres, styles,
bands, from all over the former country; it is in fact a continuation of Yugoslav brand of
‗internationalism.‘ Aktivista further explicates his mission below:
Here you can expect to find all sorts of sounds and sound memorials of various
events that adored this beautiful and strong country. It may sound silly to some,
but it doesn‘t to me. This Yugoslavia meant a lot to me. I was born and raised
there. Every single day I spent in this Yugoslavia. I listened to this and that, and
now it‘s time you‘ve heard too. 178
176 Zvuci Jugoslavije – Sounds of Yugoslavia, http://jugozvuk.blogspot.com/, hereafter Jugozvuk, accessed 8 August
2011.
177 See Jugozvuk, http://jugozvuk.blogspot.com/.
178 Ibid.
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