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All colour of the nights
“Her voice sounded like it came out of the deep urban night film noir – from the night that trembles from loneliness and nostalgia, love and separation, of chaos, of longing and abandonment, of the signs of life and breathless, of the shadow which hides a lover and dreams that do not need her, of post-coital melahncholy that you can give the voice just words, and tears flowing on their own – from the night he sifted through and scattered the old turntable speaker – from those exotic, saturated, smoky, gambling, ecstatic night in which her name was Shanghai Lily – from the night that promises love at first sight, a cigarette, a few words and the good old days. ”
Paths of Fame. How marginal people force the nation’s attention on themselves
Introductory speech by Dr Ivan Čolović, prominent Serbian ethnologist, political anthropologist and founder of the series Biblioteka XX vek at the International symposium “Put a Spotlight on Me! The meaning of celebrities in Central and Eastern Europe”. Organisers: Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, 18-19 May 2015
