Zlatko Gall

{{Short description|Croatian music journalist and critic}} '''Zlatko Gall''' (born December 1, 1954<ref>{{cite web|url=http://status-online.hgu.hr/index.php?option%3Dcontent%26task%3Dview%26id%3D117%26Itemid%3D73 |title=ZLATKO GALL: "GLAZBENI LEKSIKON" |access-date=December 21, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925222823/http://status-online.hgu.hr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=73 |archive-date=September 25, 2008 }}</ref>) is a [[Croatia]]n journalist, commentator and [[rock critic]].

Gall was born in [[Split (city)|Split]], and he graduated in art history and archeology at the [[Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb|Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences]] at the [[University of Zagreb]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rirock.com/hrvatska-i-svijet/zlatko-gall-rock-enciklopedija-prosireno-izdanje/|title=Zlatko Gall - "Rock enciklopedija", prošireno izdanje|language=hr|website=rirock.com|access-date=October 14, 2019}}</ref> Gall worked as a journalist in ''[[Slobodna Dalmacija]]'' from 1979 to 1995. After working for ''Tjednik'' and ''[[Feral Tribune]]'' weeklies, he returned to ''Slobodna Dalmacija'' in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hrvatskodrustvopisaca.hr/index.php/hr/clanstvo/clan/zlatko-gall|title=Zlatko Gall|work=hrvatskodrustvopisaca.hr|publisher=Croatian Writers' Society|language=hr|access-date=March 23, 2019}}</ref>

Zlatko Gall is known as an advocate for [[rock music]] as an expression of urban culture and [[Liberalism|liberal]] values. He sees rock music as the antithesis of [[turbo folk]] which was associated with rural culture, [[conservatism|conservative]] values, extreme [[nationalism]] and [[right-wing politics]] in [[former Yugoslavia]]. He often criticises pop and rock musicians who add elements of folk and turbo folk to their repertoire in order to make their music more accessible to the public. For example, in ''Slobodna Dalmacija'' he famously wrote an article lambasting the [[Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka|Ivan Zajc theatre in Rijeka]] for the decision to hire popular musician and advocate of turbo folk [[Severina Vučković]] for a production of the popular musical ''Karolina Riječka'' in 2003. He is one of the most respected rock critic in modern Croatia, and the author of "Rock encyclopedia".<ref>{{Cite journal|title=The Politics of Performance: Transnationalism and its Limits in Former Yugoslav Popular Music, 1999–2004 |author=C Baker|year=2006|volume=5|issue=3|pages=275–293|journal=Ethnopolitics|publisher= Taylor & Francis|doi=10.1080/17449050600911075|url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/199235/1/Ethnopolitics_article.pdf}}</ref>

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==Further reading== * [http://proleksis.lzmk.hr/54406/ Gall, Zlatko] {{in lang|hr}}

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