The most significant music scene developed in the later period of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia), and includes internationally acclaimed artists such as: the alternative music acts Laibach and Disciplina Kičme which appeared on MTV; classical music artists such as Ivo Pogorelić and Stefan Milenković; folk artists such as the Roma music performer Esma Redžepova; the musicians of the YU Rock Misija contribution to Bob Geldof's Band Aid; the Eurovision Song Contest performers such as the 1989 winners Riva and Tereza Kesovija, who represented Monaco at the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 and her own country in 1972, and plenty of others.
For example, Yugoslav punk and new wave rose in the late 1970s; disco, both foreign and "Yu-disco", was making inroads by the early 70s, with international stars such as Earth, Wind & Fire performing in Zagreb, Belgrade, and Ljubljana in 1975.
[1] The communist government confiscated Edison Bell Penkala and Elektroton, companies that had been active in the interwar period, and used them to create the state-sponsored, Zagreb-based record label Jugoton in 1947.
[1] The post-war stance in Yugoslavia towards folklore, and with it folk music, was inspired by the Soviet ideals of a culture that was neither bourgeois nor peasant, but new.
[3] Many of the Yugoslav folk music that emerged in the beginning of the post-revolutionary period were seen as a reflection of the project of building an ideologically and physically new vision of Yugoslavia.