Russia Gets the Blues: Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times
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Michael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance of the genre in the turbulent, postcommunist society. Russians, he explains, have taken a music originating in the "low" culture of the American South and transformed it into an object of "high" culture, fashioning a social identity that distinguishes blues adherents from both the discredited Soviet past and the vulgar consumerism associated with the country's...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801489008
ISBN13:9780801489006
Release Date:April 2004
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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