THE SHANGE OF STATUS THROUGH THE MYTH ABOUT SINGER OF NEWLY COMPOSED FOLK MUSIC

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to analyse some non-musical aspects of phenomenon appearing in our country during last dacades, under the addopted name „newly composed folk music“. This kond of analyses is enabled by the myth story, created by mass-media and press, about the singer of the kind, Miroslav Ilić.

Lately, a close social structure exists with us, unabling the change of status for certain stratums. Such closed societies are usually corresponding to social portrets of newly composed music listners, thus myth represend a base upon which such stratums are enabled to construct own possibilities towards the ehange of social status. Mythic story favours the life style of such people, offering identification with the „star“ life, in which way they become desired models of existence. Appearing within the frame of mass culture product, such model of existence overgrows the basical target through the meaning of myth, indicating the social and cultural unstratification of society through social context of people who are „consumers“ of such myths. The attitude insisted by muth, enables us to see the tendency towards satisfying the social layers accepting the myth, and finding the social roots of the myth.