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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810172903321

Autore

MacFadyen David <1964->

Titolo

Red stars : personality and the Soviet popular song, 1955-1991 / / David MacFadyen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001

ISBN

1-282-85896-3

9786612858963

0-7735-6879-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xi, 319 p. : ports

Disciplina

782.42164/0947/0904

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-307), filmography (p. 307-309), discography (p. 310-315) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



continuous political scrutiny. Both bold and penetrating, MacFadyen reveals a part of the Soviet Union that, while touching millions of people, has remained almost completely unexamined.