Performing Russia : folk revival and Russian identity /

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This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia showing how folk 'tradition' in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Olson, Laura J., 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
Series:BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 7.
Subjects:
Folk music > Russia (Federation) > History and criticism.
Folk music > Social aspects > Russia (Federation)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Folk music
Folk music > Social aspects
Russia (Federation)
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Invention and Re-invention of Folk Music in Pre-Revolutionary Russia; A Unified National Style: Folklore Performance in the Soviet Context; The Origins of the Russian Folk Revival Movement; Revival and Identity after Socialism; Power and Ritual: Russian Nationalism and Representations of the Folk, Orthodoxy, Imperial Russia and the Cossackry; Performing Masculinity: Cossack Myth and Reality in Post-Soviet Revival Movements; The Village Revives.
  • Making Memory: How Urban Intellectuals Reinvent Russian Village TraditionsConclusion: Folklore and Popular Culture; Appendix: List of Interviews, by interviewee and by location; Notes; Index.

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