| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 7
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BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 7.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-273) and index. |
| 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. |
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Making Memory: How Urban Intellectuals Reinvent Russian Village TraditionsConclusion: Folklore and Popular Culture; Appendix: List of Interviews, by interviewee and by location; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Folk music -- Russia (Federation) -- History and criticism.
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Folk music. |
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Russia (Federation) |
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Folk music -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
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Folk music -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Olson, Laura J., 1962- Performing Russia. London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 0415326141 (DLC) 2003014130 (OCoLC)52542592 |
| ISBN |
0203317572 (electronic book) |
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9780203317570 (electronic book) |
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