# Zlatko Gall

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Croatian music journalist and critic

**Zlatko Gall** (born December 1, 1954[1]) is a [Croatian](/source/Croatia) journalist, commentator and [rock critic](/source/Rock_critic).

Gall was born in [Split](/source/Split_(city)), and he graduated in art history and archeology at the [Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences](/source/Faculty_of_Humanities_and_Social_Sciences%2C_University_of_Zagreb) at the [University of Zagreb](/source/University_of_Zagreb).[2] Gall worked as a journalist in *[Slobodna Dalmacija](/source/Slobodna_Dalmacija)* from 1979 to 1995. After working for *Tjednik* and *[Feral Tribune](/source/Feral_Tribune)* weeklies, he returned to *Slobodna Dalmacija* in 2001.[3]

Zlatko Gall is known as an advocate for [rock music](/source/Rock_music) as an expression of urban culture and [liberal](/source/Liberalism) values. He sees rock music as the antithesis of [turbo folk](/source/Turbo_folk) which was associated with rural culture, [conservative](/source/Conservatism) values, extreme [nationalism](/source/Nationalism) and [right-wing politics](/source/Right-wing_politics) in [former Yugoslavia](/source/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 [Ivan Zajc theatre in Rijeka](/source/Croatian_National_Theatre_Ivan_pl._Zajc_in_Rijeka) for the decision to hire popular musician and advocate of turbo folk [Severina Vučković](/source/Severina_Vu%C4%8Dkovi%C4%87) 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".[4]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["ZLATKO GALL: "GLAZBENI LEKSIKON""](https://web.archive.org/web/20080925222823/http://status-online.hgu.hr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=73). Archived from [the original](http://status-online.hgu.hr/index.php?option%3Dcontent%26task%3Dview%26id%3D117%26Itemid%3D73) on September 25, 2008. Retrieved December 21, 2008.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Zlatko Gall - "Rock enciklopedija", prošireno izdanje"](http://www.rirock.com/hrvatska-i-svijet/zlatko-gall-rock-enciklopedija-prosireno-izdanje/). *rirock.com* (in Croatian). Retrieved October 14, 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Zlatko Gall"](https://hrvatskodrustvopisaca.hr/index.php/hr/clanstvo/clan/zlatko-gall). *hrvatskodrustvopisaca.hr* (in Croatian). Croatian Writers' Society. Retrieved March 23, 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** C Baker (2006). ["The Politics of Performance: Transnationalism and its Limits in Former Yugoslav Popular Music, 1999–2004"](https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/199235/1/Ethnopolitics_article.pdf) (PDF). *Ethnopolitics*. **5** (3). Taylor & Francis: 275–293. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1080/17449050600911075](https://doi.org/10.1080%2F17449050600911075).

## Further reading

- [Gall, Zlatko](http://proleksis.lzmk.hr/54406/) (in Croatian)

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