![]() His offer of both the materials used in this study and the contemporary images in Red Stars was generous indeed. The photographs in this book are the work of Slava Guretskii. While at the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg I relied, as ever, upon priceless newspaper archives along the Fontanka, and express my gratitude to its most patient curators. Additional, equally valuable support was offered in Canada by Erin Fox, endlessly cataloging thousands of songs. I would like to acknowledge my colleagues at both Dalhousie and ucla for help during the time of research. Russian popular cult ure after 1982: the big pic ture “Why Am I Singing Now?” Grand Narratives and Their Hard-Working Survivors 161 Conclusion: Only the Sentimental and Industrious Can Endure 181ġ05296_91.fm Page viii Thursday, J1:08 PM With little originality but much affection this book is dedicated to my parents, my brother, and my sister.įour predicam ents The Decline of a Soviet Repertoire The Absence of Ideologyĭirectorial Work on the Stage and on the RoadĮvidence of two solut io ns Audio: The Sound of Music and Mutation Video: Estrada on Film since Perestroika Popular music – Russia (Federation) – 1991–2000 – History and criticism. Popular music – Soviet Union – 1981–1990 – History and criticism. Includes bibliographical references and index. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (bpidp) for our publishing activities.Ĭanadian Cataloguing in Publication Data MacFadyen, David, 1964– Estrada?!: grand narratives and the philosophy of the Russian popular song since Perestroika / David MacFadyen. McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for its publishing program. This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. © McGill-Queen’s University Press 2002 isbn 0-7735-2371-5 Legal deposit third quarter 2002 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-consumer recycled) and processed chlorine free. McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston david m acfadyen, associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages at ucla, is the author of Red Stars: Personality and the Soviet Popular Song, 1955–1991 and two books on Joseph Brodsky.ĮSTRADA?! GRAND NARRATIVES AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE RUSSIAN POPULAR SONG SINCE PERESTROIKA David MacFadyen Even in postSoviet Europe, song remains the most profoundly consequential of art forms. MacFadyen shows that for Russia’s most famous performers today singing is still a responsibility of both private and public relevance. He highlights the troubled state of Soviet music journalism in the eighties, the deteriorating standards of staging, and the problems of developing a “proper” post-Soviet repertoire given the weakened relevance of songs as propaganda and the tenuous value of an old-style “sentimental education” that performers hoped to offer audiences. The author shows how performance, popularity, and politics have all changed rapidly in Russia following the fall of communism. Having dispelled several myths surrounding Soviet popular entertainment – known as “estrada” or the “small stage” – in Red Stars, MacFadyen shifts his attention to a newer musical tradition that has emerged from the simultaneous disappearance of Soviet ideology and the loud influx of Western music. In Estrada?!, the second volume of a three-part series on Russian popular song, David MacFadyen extends his overview of Russian culture and society into the post-Soviet period. ESTRADA?! Grand Narratives and the Philosophy of the Russian Popular Song since Perestroika
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