The Role of Music Documentaries in the Culture of Memory

By applying an interdisciplinary approach that combines theoretical and methodological perspectives through which specific cultural content and phenomena can be interpreted, this paper analyzes the role of music documentaries in the culture of remembrance in the post-Yugoslav space. The aim of the paper is to explore how this particular film (sub)genre has contributed to the construction of memory surrounding Yugoslav rock music over the past two decades. Additionally, the paper seeks to broaden the understanding of the time and space in which this music was created (The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) and to expand the analytical framework for understanding its role as a place of memory within the broader context of popular memory as a field of struggle over the meaning of the past. The analysis aims to demonstrate that the role of music documentaries in the culture of remembrance cannot be viewed solely through a commercial lens, but should also be understood in relation to broader social phenomena and cultural practices in the post-Yugoslav space.