During communist Yugoslavia, music glorified the state and its leaders, but Western rock music introduced new styles. In the late 1960s, a hippie movement emerged alongside student protests. As Yugoslavia began to collapse in the late 1980s, concerts featured patriotic songs and helped spur independence for Croatia. During the war in the 1990s, Croatian musicians wrote patriotic and anti-war songs to support the country's freedom movement.

1. OWTF - THE ROLE OF MUSIC

2. CONTENT:
 Communist Yugoslavia
 Music from the west (Rock’n'roll)
 Hippie movement
 Pre fall of Yugoslavia
 Croatian Band Aid
 Our Way to Freedom

3. COMMUNIST YUGOSLAVIA
 During the communist Yugoslavia, which was part of Croatia, the
overall arts, including music, was in the service of communist
Yugoslavia. In addition to songs that glorified Yugoslavia, popular
were the songs on the workers' actions, and songs glorifying the
cult of personality of Josip Broz Tito.
 In the media and at public events emphasized the oath
"Comrade Tito, we swear." Tito's birthday on May 25, celebrated
as Youth Day with various rituals of worship.
 One of the most popular songs was "Yugoslavia", which
represented the unofficial anthem. The song contains the text
that celebrates unity and history of Yugoslavia.

4. MUSIC FROM THE WEST (ROCK’N'ROLL)
 Young people of Yugoslavia, closely followed by the West, and show
yourself rebellion: boys grow their hair and girls cut their hair, and, of
course, wear miniskirts.
 Rock'n'roll was initially criticized for Western influence and "turn the
light path of revolution." In the report, the Union of Communist Youth
of Yugoslavia by 1963. It is stated that "should be condemned
singing rock and roll in the waves of Radio Belgrade."
 The daily newspaper "Politika" young were called because of
inappropriate behavior, but later held a party analysis where
analysts have concluded that rock music as a youth can be a good
way to get them attracted to socialism. It was concluded that even
wearing long hair and miniskirts does not represent an ideological
problem, but about a generation gap.

5. HIPPIE MOVEMENT
 After the so-called Warm summer love 1967th year, expanding
the hippie movement, both in the world and in Yugoslavia.
1968th year was also marked by student protests in the world,
which included the massive student demonstrations in many
cities of Yugoslavia (Croatian spring 1971.). The unrest talking and
singing group Azra from the 1982nd year, named '68. Azra
recorded the song "Poland is in my heart," which supported the
movement "Solidarity" and Lech Walesa.

6. PRE FALL OF YUGOSLAVIA
 In 1989th year there were signs that pointed to the imminent
disappearance of Yugoslavia, and the general collapse of
communism in Europe. Even then, Slovenia and Croatia were
towards the road to independence, establishing the
circumstances under half legal first non-communist parties. In
Serbia, on the other hand, under the leadership of Slobodan
Milosevic, more raging desire for the creation of a Greater
Serbia.

7. PRE FALL OF YUGOSLAVIA
 Evening, October 17, 1989th year, some three weeks before the
fall of the Berlin Wall, the members of „Prljavo Kazalište” held a
concert at the Republic Square, where there were 200,000
people. The band among others played a song my mother,
which was dedicated to the late mother of one member of the
band - which became known as the Rose of Croatia. The
concert was one of the signs of disappearance of Yugoslavia.
The concert was supposed to be banned, but what are the
band members Sam theater prepared that night, surpassed all
expectations.

8. CROATIAN BAND AID
 Unfortunately, the nineties in Croatia raging war and music
marked by patriotic and anti-war songs.
 Croatian pop and rock artists participated in the project
Croatian Band Aid song „Moja domovina” (My homeland). So
are dozens of artists, among them Oliver, Sanja Dolezal, Danijela
Martinović, Davor Gobac, and many others, sang under the
collective name Band Aid, the independent Croatia. „Moja
domovina" has become such a cult song often sung on
Independence Day.

9. OUR WAY TO FREEDOM
 You can conclude that the music in Croatia was often
negatively used for political purposes, for the glorification of
communism and the strengthening of Tito's personality cult.
However, music is used as a medium by which warn of the
problems in society, political and economic difficulties in
Yugoslavia in the eighties. And certainly the most positive effect
on "our way to freedom," during the war, when the Croatian
musicians compose beautiful patriotic and anti-war songs.

10. OUR WAY TO FREEDOM
 You can conclude that the music in Croatia was often
negatively used for political purposes, for the glorification of
communism and the strengthening of Tito's personality cult.
However, music is used as a medium by which warn of the
problems in society, political and economic difficulties in
Yugoslavia in the eighties. And certainly the most positive effect
on "our way to freedom," during the war, when the Croatian
musicians compose beautiful patriotic and anti-war songs.