Jeunesses musicales of Yugoslavia (1954-1991) acitivities in the countries of Eastern Bloc through the prism of socialist Yugoslavia cultural diplomacy

Abstract

In this paper we focused on the collaboration of the Jeunesses Musicales of Yugoslavia (JMY) with similar organisations of the Eastern Bloc countries. Besides pointing to the various activities that the JMY carried out from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, certain general tendencies in the process of cultural exchange were also underlined. The aim is to consider whether the JMY's cooperation with Eastern Bloc organisations followed Yugoslav foreign policies in the cultural sphere at the time.