War of Songs : : Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations.

• Superior document: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society ; v.203
• Author: Hansen, Arve.
• TeilnehmendeR: Rogatchevski, Andrei.; Steinholt, Yngvar.; Wickström, David-Emil.; Troitsky, Artemy.
• Place / Publishing House: La Vergne : : Ibidem Verlag,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (259 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Pictures -- Quoted lyrics -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements and Technicalities -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Pop Rock, Ethno-Chaos, Battle Drums and a Requiem: The Soundtrack of the Ukrainian Revolution -- 1.1 Music and the History of Protests in Ukraine -- 1.2 The Main Locations of Protest Music -- 1.2.1 The 'Political' Camp -- 1.2.2 The 'Apolitical' Camp -- 1.2.3 The Anti-Maidan Camp -- 1.2.4 Social Media -- 1.3 The Five Phases of Euromaidan -- 1.3.1 Rise up! (21 - 19 November 2013) -- 1.3.2 Vitia, Goodbye! (30 November 2013 - 15 January 2014) -- 1.3.3 The Burning Tyre (16 January - 20 February 2014) -- 1.3.4 There Swims a Duckling (21 - 23 February 2014) -- 1.3.5 Warriors of Light (23 February 2014 and beyond) -- 1.4 Common Features and General Tendencies -- 1.5 The Many Anthems of the Euromaidan -- 1.6 The Power of Music -- 2 Euromaidan's Aftermath and the Genre of Answer Song: A Musical Dialogue Between Antagonists? -- 2.1 Responses to New Base Songs -- 2.2 Reworkings of Old Base Songs -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3 Exposing the Fault Lines Beneath the Kremlin's Restorative Geopolitics: Russian and Ukrainian Parodies of the Russian National Anthem -- 3.1 A brief history of the Russian national anthem -- 3.1.1 From "Gimn partii bol'shevikov" to "Rossiia sviashchennaia" - Melody and Lyrics -- 3.1.2 An Inviting Target -- 3.1.3 The Anthem's Fatherland and Presentist Utopia -- 3.2 The Parodies -- 3.2.1 Parody 1: The Veteran Dissident's Anthem -- 3.2.2 Parody 2: The Russian Anthem as Religious ecoNOMism -- 3.2.3 Parody 3: The Unofficial Anthem of the Russian Official -- 3.2.4 Parody 4: Death to the Empire! -- 3.2.5 Parody 5: The Verdict of the Singing Truck Driver -- 3.2.6 Parody 6: Framing is Everything - The Sebastopol Apocryph.

3.2.7 Bonus Track: A Grain of Truth and the Ideology of Masturbation -- 3.3 Conclusion -- 4 'Lasha Tumbai', or 'Russia, Good-Bye'? - The Eurovision Song Contest as a Post-Soviet Geopolitical Battleground -- 4.1 Previous Research and Historical Context -- 4.2 GreenJolly and the ESC in the Orange Revolution aftermath -- 4.3 Dancing Russia Good-Bye - Verka Serdiuchka and the 2007 ESC -- 4.4 We Don't Wanna Put In - The 2009 ESC in Moscow -- 4.5 A Million Voices: Euromaidan's Impact on the ESC Stages -- 4.6 1944 or 2014? Jamala and Crimea -- 4.7 Celebrating Diversity with Iuliia Samoilova - The ESC in Kyiv 2017 -- 4.8 Conclusion -- Concluding Remarks and Possible Future Prospects -- References -- Bibliography -- Filmography and music videos -- Personal communication -- Index.