Paper short abstract:

In the case of redefining the role and importance of Sabac fair (Šabački vašar) as recognized parameters in the process of repositioning urban markers of identity, especially in the period of socialism, post-socialism and socio-cultural transition in Serbia

Paper long abstract:

Sabac fair (Šabački vašar) was founded in the 20th century as a cultural symbol of the city of Sabac and one of the undoubted urban markers of identity. Because of the role and importance - from the local to the entire community in the former Yugoslavia - the socialist period and the post-socialist period are successively connected two cultural events in the Sabac fair "sacred time and space". In the late sixties was founded Czivijada (Čivijada) with the concept of literary evenings, humor and satire, and in the beginning of the 21st century was founded Carnival in Sabac as a tourist and cultural manifestation. A recent survey of Sabac fair (within the implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage) indicated that it planned to relocate the social significance Czivijada (Čivijada) primary focus on social feasts city dogmatised "pretty face" of socialism and the "new man". Carnival was created during the post-war years and is favored in the local community as a tourist and cultural manifestation that will be raised in the economic field and join the process of glocalization in the socio-cultural environment.