Laura Olson

Performing Russia (eBook, ePUB)

Folk Revival and Russian Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134341078
• Artikelnr.: 47884792

Autorenporträt

Laura J. Olson is Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Colarado, Boulder. She has been researching and performing Slavic folk music since 1987.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Invention and Re-invention of Folk Music in
Pre-Revolutionary Russia 2. A Unified National Style: Folklore Performance
in the Soviet Context 3. The Origins of the Russian Folk Revival Movement
4. Revival and Identity after Socialism 5. Power and Ritual: Russian
Nationalism and Representations of the Folk, Orthodoxy, Imperial Russia and
the Cossackry 6. Performing Masculinity: Cossack Myth and Reality in
Post-Soviet Revival Movements 7. The Village Revives 8. Making Memory: How
Urban Intellectuals Re-invent Russian Village Traditions