This book investigates how self-organized singing collectives in post-Yugoslav territories utilize revolutionary and workers' music as a tool for political resistance against neoliberal fragmentation. Ana Hofman, an ethnomusicologist, draws upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork and historical analysis to examine how these groups reclaim socialist-era repertoires. She argues that collective singing functions as a critical site for organizing against the adverse social and economic outcomes of privatization and dispossession in the region.

Experts identify this work as a significant contribution to the study of post-socialist cultural politics and the role of performance in social movements. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which effectively bridges the gap between musicology and political sociology.