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the past ... on the part of the visitor and, primarily, the blogger. Excursions in archaeology of the
musical past by both the blogger and the visitor are probably the most intriguing activity enabled
by music blogs. For the latter it is a mission, and a time consuming one. Yet it is also a rewarding
preoccupation with finding old rarities and valuables, to feel the dusty decaying record sleeve
under the fingertips, to smell the touch of time, to hold the record in your hands and wipe it clean,
and play it on the gramophone.
All this invokes very material-based, physical sensations, and in the view of Aktivista‘s statement
that much of the posted music is the music he used to listen to (or at least hear occasionally on the
radio) in the ‗old days,‘ this discovery must be a very tangible and emotional, affective affair.
Through the interaction with the ‗material,‘ tactile memory is invoked that despite all the
technology can only be a personal, intimate experience. On the part of the visitor, the just as
intriguing aspect of looking for music on blogs is, indeed, an act of discovering—not only of
music that one once was a fan of but rather of—music one had no idea it was ever made/recorded.
Despite the fact that it cannot be touched or smelled, the very clicky and hissy sounds that the
digitised tracks played back via one or another player make, are incentive enough to arouse a
sense of pastness in the music.
Now, the analysis of such a blog seems difficult as it is impossible to go through all the posts and
comprehensively analyse all of them. Therefore, a certain selection is essential, and I am aware
that any selection will necessarily be partial and subjective. In the case of this and other blogs
discussed, the selection provides a comprehensive enough picture and enough material to delimit
and investigate the strategies and reaches of digital storytelling. Moreover, these blogs not only
feature as digital storytelling but in a way also as digital memorials: in that that they provide an
interactive more-than-archive of Yugoslav (popular) music. In fact they represent a living
memorial to one country‘s music (on digital memorials see Chapters 1 and 4).
09 April 2011
Opera iz davne 1972 godine uţivo za DAN BLOGA 9. april
WELL BROTHERS AND SISTERS YUGOBLOGGERS TODAY IS THE DAY OF
THIS BLOG, ON 9 APRIL THAT DISTANT YEAR THREE YEARS AGO I DECIDED
TO BUILD THE FOUNDATIONS OF THIS BLOG WITH A VIEW TO
PERSONALLY PRESENT TO YOU ALL THE EXISTING SOUND OF
YUGOSLAVIA ON ONE PLACE THIS IS HOW
A BLOG WITH MANY MOST DIFFERENT SOUNDS OF OUR UNSURPASSED
AND MOST BEAUTIFUL AND GREAT YUGOSLAVIA. I‘M PROUD OF
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