New Wave Music in Yugoslavia (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! New Wave in Yugoslavia (Croatian language and Slovene: Novi val; Serbian:, Novi talas; Macedonian:, transl.: Nov bran; all meaning New wave) was the New Wave music scene of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. As its counterparts, The British and the US New Wave, from which the main influences came, the Yugoslav scene was also closely related to Punk rock, Ska, Reggae, Two Tone, Power pop, Mod Revival etc. Some of its acts are also counted as belonging to the Yugoslav Punk scene which already existed prior to the New Wave. Such artists were labeled as both punk rock and new wave (the term new wave was initially interchangeable with punk). The Non-Aligned socialist Yugoslavia was never part of the Eastern Bloc and it was opened to western influences (the West to some extent even supported Yugoslavia as a buffer zone to the Warsaw Pact).