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"For a variety of reasons, rock music in former Yugoslavia never achieved the status of a subversive underground movement it had in other communist states 1970s like Czechoslovakia. Instead, this status became the almost exclusive property of punk and its derivatives, since only with the arrival of punk did Yugoslavian pop culture managed to fully catch up with the West and jump onto the train of modernity. This added another dimension to the already messianic advent of punk in Yugoslavia and had a practical effect of defining all true diversity of the alternative music exclusively through punk. Such status of punk music is an obvious truism in the case of 1980s cassette experimentalism in Yugoslavia, where punk’s monolithicness was virtually unprecedented compared to its equivalent scenes in the West."
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