Russia Gets the Blues : Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times /
Michael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance of the genre in the turbulent, postcommunist society. Russians, he explains, have taken a music originating in the "low" culture of the American South and transformed it into an object of "high&...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2004.
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Table des matières:
- Why blues?
- First encounters
- Moscow blues : musicians and their music
- Moscow blues : sites and sounds
- St. Petersburg and the provinces
- Identity and community
- Politics.