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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820836703321

Autore

Olson Laura J. <1962, >

Titolo

Performing Russia : folk revival and Russian identity / / Laura J. Olson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-34107-5

0-203-38989-1

1-134-34108-3

1-280-02519-0

0-203-31757-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Collana

BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; ; 7

Disciplina

306.4/84

306.4840947

390.0947

Soggetti

Folk music - Russia (Federation) - History and criticism

Folk music - Social aspects - Russia (Federation)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-273) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Making Memory: How Urban Intellectuals Reinvent Russian Village TraditionsConclusion: Folklore and Popular Culture; Appendix: List of Interviews, by interviewee and by location; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why memory and tradition, in these particular forms, have taken on particular significance in different periods.  Above all it shows how folk ""tradition"" in Russia is an



artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented, and it demonstrates in particular how the ""folk revival"" has played a key role in strengthening Russian national consciousness in the post-Soviet period.