Once We Fought: The Rise of the Ex-Yu 1960s Progressive Rock Music Scene, Indexi, and the Influence of The Beatles

ABSTRACT

This article explores the 1960s early Yugorock music scene in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, with a particular focus on the band Indexi (Indices), which was formed in Sarajevo in 1962. As an early Beatles-inspired group, Indexi created some of the most popular Yugoslav progressive rock songs of all time. Two songs that Indexi produced in 1969, shortly after the release of the Beatles’ White Album, show direct parallels between the songs that appear on The White Album and the type of inspiration Indexi consistently drew from the Beatles, particularly in the first part of the band’s career.

KEYWORDS:

• The White Album
• the Beatles
• socialist Yugoslavia
• Indexi
• progressive rock
• early Yugorock

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Marina Vujnovic

Dr. Marina Vujnovic is an Associate Professor of Journalism in the Department of Communication at Monmouth University. A native of Croatia, Dr. Marina Vujnovic, came to the United States in 2003 to pursue her graduate education in journalism and mass communication. Before coming to the United States she worked as a journalist before becoming a research assistant at the University of Zagreb. She also worked as a PR practitioner for Cyprian based PR agency Action Global Communications. She received her MA in Communication from the University of Northern Iowa, and her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa in 2008. She is an author of Forging the Bubikopf Nation: Journalism, Gender and Modernity in Interwar Yugoslavia, co-author of Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers, and co-editor of Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Paradigms, Actions.