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Autore |
MacFadyen David <1964-> |
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Titolo |
Red stars [[electronic resource] ] : personality and the Soviet popular song, 1955-1991 / / David MacFadyen |
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Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001 |
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1-282-85896-3 |
9786612858963 |
0-7735-6879-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Popular music - Soviet Union - History and criticism |
Popular music - Social aspects - Soviet Union |
Singers - Soviet Union |
Musique populaire - URSS - Histoire et critique |
Musique populaire - Aspect social - URSS |
Chanteurs - URSS |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-307), filmography (p. 307-309), discography (p. 310-315) and index. |
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The Soviet popular song after Stalin -- Lyric or civic: personality and theatricality -- Why sing estrada? Philosophical contexts of the genre -- Edita Pekha: gentle voice of the thaw -- Iosif Kobzon and the civic response -- Irina Ponarovskaia and Sofiia Rotaru : in and out of Russia -- Lev Leshchenko and Valerii Leont'ev: two nightingales -- Alla Pugacheva: redefinine estrada -- Alla Pugacheva: redefining personality. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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David MacFadyen delves into influential and widely disseminated songs that had a profound social significance in the Soviet Union. He discusses each singer's life, showing what it was that made them famous while placing the differences in their careers and fame in the context of Soviet culture as a whole. MacFadyen's multi-layered study considers national identity, gender, and the development of individual celebrity in a socialist state. He also looks at whether it is possible for artists to achieve genuine self-expression in a public arena under |
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