Torsello, Davide - Pappová, Melinda: Social Networks in Movement. Time, interaction and interethnic spaces in Central Eastern Europe - Nostra Tempora 8. (Somorja-Dunaszerdahely, 2003)
Time and social networks
108 Rajkó Muršič In the late fifties, when the first post-war generation had reached maturity, the “Communal House” slowly sank into oblivion. As far as individual living standards were concerned, the most profound changes were initiated with the electrification of the village between 1955 and 1964. Among the first electric devices people purchased for their homes were radio receivers. Slovene popular music of that time completely changed the musical taste of the younger generation(s). Almost immediately, they started to play music they heard on radio. It was a Slovene version of Alpine polka music, literally called “folkentertainment” music (narodno-zabavna glasba in Slovene). The “Ansambei bratov Avsenik” which started to perform in 1953, became the most influential group - not only in Slovenia, but also in Germany, where they sold several million records under the name “Die Originale Oberkreiner Quintet” (on the group see Sivec 1999). The first such group in this region was “Veseli fantje s Trat” (The Joyful Fellows from Trate) who started to perform in local pubs and venues around 1958. In the mid-sixties, this new generation - which was obviously enthusiastic about "folk-entertainment” - established a new public house in the village of Trate. This time they named it simply the “Youth Club” (Klub mladih). It was partly a result of the official policy of the socialist youth organisation in the early sixties. The village youth who ran the club was predominately oriented toward leisure activities (organising dance parties and sport events). Some of them still played the above mentioned Slovene ethno-pop music with accordions, trumpets and guitars. But they also bought a gramophone and played popular Croatian, Italian and British pop songs (occasionally they would even play some records by the Beatles or the Rolling Stones). Needless to say, individuals from this generation still communicate and co-operate with each other - after all, they held the leading positions in the village in the nineties. Without the common experience of socialisation and shared preferences in taste, as well as in their basic world-view, they could have not found consensus
