Russia Gets the Blues

Russia Gets the Blues
Author: Michael E. Urban
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801442292

Urban and Evdokimov chronicle the rise of a new cultural idiom in Russia, based on blues music. "Russian blues" is tainted neither by the Soviet past nor with the brash consumerism associated with Westernization. The music of the downtrodden South has become the high culture of Moscow and St Petersburg.

Russian Folk Songs

Russian Folk Songs
Author: Vadim Prokhorov
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2002
Genre: Music
ISBN:

The study is supplemented with over ninety musical examples and includes a comprehensive musical and poetic anthology, with lyrics in both Russian and English."--BOOK JACKET.

Soviet War Songs in the Context of Russian Culture

Soviet War Songs in the Context of Russian Culture
Author: Elena Polyudova
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-02-29
Genre: War songs
ISBN: 1443889741

This volume presents a unique study of war songs created during and after World War II, known in Russia as the “Great Patriotic War”. The most popular war songs, such as “Katyusha”, “The Sacred War”, “Dark Night”, “My Moscow”, “In the Dugout”, “Victory Day”, provide illuminating insights into the musical culture of the former Soviet Union and modern Russia. In the year of the 70th anniversary of victory in the war, the book studies the cultural heritage of famous war songs from a new perspective, exploring the historical background of their creation and analysing their lyrics as part of Russian cultural heritage. The book also discusses the modifications required when translating the songs from Russian to English. It concludes with a description an educational project studying war songs at Moscow schools run under the auspices of UNESCO.

Songs for Fat People

Songs for Fat People
Author: David MacFadyen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2002-11-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0773570624

The author traces the careers of early singers such as Izabella Iur'eva, Tamara Tsereteli, and others who struggled to continue to perform as they fled the dangers of a Soviet society that had little patience for café-culture. MacFadyen follows their trail through Eastern Europe to Paris and London, then across to New York and San Francisco, and back into Russia through the smoky, émigré bars of colourful Chinese towns. He pays particular attention to the notion of "mass" songs inside the Soviet Union and explores the relationship of official and public approval. By looking at how these performers used success at home and abroad to become recording stars, film stars, and eventually television personalities, MacFadyen avoids the conventional dichotomies about the East Block to show the complexity of Soviet culture.

The Russian People

The Russian People
Author: Maurice Baring
Publisher: Litres
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 5043288914