Music Festival, which destroyed Milosevic (Video)
(9 years ago)Each July, Kalaya Petrovaradin in Serbia is the meeting point of young people and generations different from around the world. Festival E XIT is among the largest in Europe, and the biggest names of music are preceded at the festival. However, few know the origin of the festival are the youth revolt against the Milosevic regime in [...]
Each July, Kalaya Petrovaradin in Serbia is the meeting point of young people and generations different from around the world. Festival E XIT is among the largest in Europe, and the biggest names of music are preceded at the festival.
However, few know that the origin of the festival is the youth revolt against the Milosevic regime in the 1990s. In 1988, Bojan Bošković President of the University of Novi Sad's Union of Students, along with other young people, found ways to react against the state.
In protest, youth morality would be established through concerts. This year the state ruled the University Act, which means that all decisions depended on the state and the university would not have the freedom that characterized it.
A 1999 concert called “akom was glavo”, while a year later it was established as EXIT Festival. At first along with the concerts were given, among them during the pause, the performance of Slobodan Milosevic, names of journalists killed and tortured, Sarajevo's Saga, the money Milosevic spent in co-operation with Serbian banks, and that raised citizens' morality, writes the Calvert Journal.
48 hours after the first edition of EXIT ended, Milosevic did not get the votes he once had. On October 5th of that year he fell from the regime. Nobody says it happened because of the E festival's morality and propaganda. XIT, but youth was then ready to face everything, and much of it happened because of the festival.
EXIT continued in 2001, now without Milosevic. Finley Quaye, Banco de Gaia, Kosheen, Tony Allen, ManCHILD, Maximum Roach, 4hero and other artists participated in this edition, in various scenes that are still divided, writes KultPlus.
The EXIT festival continues today, while since 2000 it has been a symbol of a human but musical revolution in the Balkans. / KultPlus