Music media in the Eastern Balkans: Privatised, deregulated, and neo‐traditional

From Communism to Civil Society? The Arts and the Nonprofit Sector in Central and Eastern Europe

“…What the debate frequently failed to take into account, however, was that privatization hardly affected the whole sphere of culture in the first decade after the fall of the Wall. Specifically, as Ilczuk and Wieczorek (this issue,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64] detail in their discussion of the Polish situation, it was the cultural industries that were mostly sold off and thus became part of the market sector throughout Central and Eastern Europe (Smithuijsen 1997;Kurkela 1997). State arts institutions (e.g., museums, theaters, and symphonies), in contrast, remained for the most part firmly in the public sector, although the locus of control and funding responsibilities frequently shifted from the central to the regional and local governmental levels (Smithuijsen 1997).…”