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Other, less political Mexican films, such as comedies and romances, also became popular, and it was common for many young Yugoslavs to imitate the styles of Mexican film stars, who were seen as embodying everything that was "cool". Because many of the films shown in Yugoslavia in the 1950s–1960s were
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Some of the well-known Yu-Mex performers of the era were Nikola Karović, Slavko Perović, Ljubomir Milić and his ensemble Paloma (aka Palomci, among them Rade Todosijević), Miroslava Mrđa, Đorđe Masalović, Ana Milosavljević, Trio Tividi, Manjifiko, Nevenka Arsova, and others. Other famous singers and
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Mexican, everything Mexican became very popular in Yugoslavia and many musicians started to don sombreros to perform Mexican music, either singing in Serbo-Croatian or in the original Spanish. The interest slowly faded after the 1970s.
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and depicted ordinary Mexicans rising up against the oppressive Mexican state made Mexican films "revolutionary" enough to be shown in Yugoslavia. Many parallels were drawn between the struggle waged by the
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In 2018, Mexican non-profit organization Stultifera Navis Institutom traveled the Balkans in order to make the project "Kamarones, Jugoslavia." According to their website: "Fed by what has been called
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In the immediate post-war period, Yugoslavia did not have much of a film industry and the majority of films were imported from the Soviet Union. Following the
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did not want his country to import American films. As a result, he turned to importing Mexican films. The fact that many Mexican films of the "
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of 1948, Soviet films were no longer shown in the country. At the same time, due to ideological differences, Yugoslav president
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in 2013. During the research for the novel, Mazzini recorded the stories told by protagonists and made a TV documentary
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issues a 4CD compilation of Yu-Mex songs covering the period between 1951 and 2011 titled
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Cover of a Yugoslav pamphlet promoting the local release of the 1950 film
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in World War II and the guerrillas who fought in the Mexican Revolution.
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The first Mexican film to premiere in Yugoslavia was the 1950 drama
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of "Yugoslav" and "Mexican") was a style of popular music in the
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renewed the interest in Yu-Mex music after publishing his novel
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Index


Un día de vida
Roberto Cañedo
Columba Domínguez
portmanteau
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
traditional Mexican music
mariachi
ranchera
Tito–Stalin split
Josip Broz Tito
Golden Age
Mexican Revolution
Yugoslav Partisans
Un día de vida
Predrag Cune Gojković
Mišo Kovač
Miha Mazzini
Paloma Negra
Croatia Records
yugonostalgia
"YU-Mex fenomen: Zbog njih je sombrero bio glavni hit..."
"Zaboravljeni junaci sombrero ere"
Nezavisne novine


"Mexican Golden Age Cinema in Tito's Yugoslavia"
"YuMex Craze: How Mexican Film Won Over Yugoslavia"
"El fenómeno Yu-Mex: Cuando Yugoslavia se inundó de mariachis y rancheras"
"Yugoslavia's secret weapon against Soviet influence: YuMex culture"

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