Petar Janjatović

Petar Janjatović (born 1956 in Belgrade) is a Serbian author, journalist and music critic.

Janjatović was born in Belgrade on June 30, 1956.

As a teenager, he contributed to Radio Beograd show Veče uz radio (Evening by the Radio). He wrote for music magazines Džuboks, Rock, X zabava and Ukus nestašnih, but also for Start, Politikin Zabavnik, NIN, Vreme, Duga, Reporter, Super Tin and Politika.

In 1993, he left Radio Beograd, and during the 1990s worked on radio stations Politika, Zrenjanin and Pančevo. From 1997 to 2002 he was the music editor on Radio Pančevo. From 2006 to 2012, he, together with Tomislav Grujić, on Radio B92, had a show Juboks (Yubox), which dealt with pop and rock scene of SFR Yugoslavia successor states. During the 2000s, he was a correspondent for Billboard, Radio Free Europe and BBC.

In 1983, Janjatović, together with writer David Albahari and music critics Darko Glavan and Dragan Kremer, published the book Drugom stranom: Almanah novog talasa u SFRJ (Via Other Side: The Almanac of new wave in SFRY).

In 1993, he published the book Pesme bratstva & detinjstva: Antologija rok poezije SFR Jugoslavije 1967 - 1991 (Songs of Brotherhood & Childhood: Anthology of Rock Poetry in SFR Yugoslavia 1967 - 1991). The second edition of the book, entitled Pesme bratstva, detinjstva & potomstva: Antologija ex YU rok poezije 1967 - 2007 (Songs of Brotherhood, Childhood & Offspring: Anthology of Ex YU Rock Poetry 1967 - 2007) was published in 2008.

...
Wikipedia