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Skladateljska društva nekoč in danes | Composers’ Societies Past and Present
Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s was in serious political-ideological
and economic tension with much of the world and the countries of the
Soviet bloc. We had the impression that we were between two worlds
and that we possessed the advantages of both systems. When we look at
the artistic practice of the 1960s, the most interesting and relevant de-
velopments in the art of the people living in Yugoslavia occurred pre-
cisely in that decade and a half. What was achieved in the fields of litera-
ture, journalism, theater, and film from the early 1960s to the early 1970s
remains unsurpassed to this day. 54
In line with that, we could praise SAKOJ’s/UKS’s intense struggle to
stay on its own path, and following the artistic personalities of its composer
and music writer members. From a contemporary perspective, the self-con-
fidence with which Yugoslav representatives treated the Soviet Union as
their equal, without any intention of making concessions or bowing to the
wishes and poetics of Soviet composers.

Bibliography
Archival Sources
The Archives of Yugoslavia (Arhiv Jugoslavije/AJ, Belgrade)
Fond 142, Socialist Alliance for the Working People of Yugoslavia – SSRNJ.
Fond 559, Federal Commission for International Cultural Links.
Serbian Business Registers Agency (Agencija za privredne registre/APR,
Belgrade), folder 2, doc. 027, Annual General Assembly of SAKOJ, 13 June
1971.

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