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'It's all the same, only he's not here'?: popular music and political change in post-TuÄman Croatia
While Franjo TuÄman was the president of Croatia (1990ā99), popular music and other forms of entertainment were heavily structured around the key presidential narratives: Croatiaās political and cultural independence from Yugoslavia, and the idea that Croatiaās war effort had been purely defensive. After TuÄman, the Croatian music industry had to cope with media pluralism and the transnational challenges of the digital era. Patriotic popular music expressed an oppositional narrative of Euroscepticism and resistance to the Hague Tribunal, yet Croatia retained and expanded its position in the transnational post-Yugoslav entertainment framework, undermining a key element of TuÄmanās ideology