Russia Gets the Blues : : Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times /

Russia Gets the Blues : : Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times / / Michael Urban.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Urban, Michael,
TeilnehmendeR:
Evdokimov, Andrei.
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2004
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Culture and Society after Socialism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.) :; 2 charts, 8 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER ONE. Why Blues?
  • CHAPTER TWO. First Encounters
  • CHAPTER THREE. Moscow Blues: Musicians and Their Music
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Moscow Blues: Sites and Sounds
  • CHAPTER FIVE. St. Petersburg and the Provinces
  • CHAPTER SIX. Identity and Community
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Politics
  • Notes
  • Index

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