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I offer a brief outline of developments within each of the following three groups of pieces: 1. reinventing tradition: folklore and beyond; 2. postmodernist strategies: challenging the voices of conventional opera; 3. conceptual and experimental approaches to opera.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5937\/newso23062013n","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,12]],"date-time":"2024-08-12T16:33:30Z","timestamp":1723480410000},"page":"13-36","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["S is for singing, scene, Serbia: Tendencies in the world of 21st century (post)opera"],"prefix":"10.5937","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0778-3565","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jelena","family":"Novak","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"3964","reference":[{"key":"ref1","unstructured":"Dittel, Kris and Jelena Novak: Postopera, exhibition booklet. 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