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Russia Gets the Blues - Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times (Hardcover)
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Russia Gets the Blues - Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times (Hardcover)
Series: Culture and Society After Socialism
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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 Westernization. While adapting the idiom to their own
conditions, Russia's bliuzmeny (bluesmen) have absorbed the blues
ethos encoded in the music by their American forebears, using it to
invert their social world, thus deriving dignity and satisfaction
from those very things that give one the blues.Based on more than
forty interviews with blues musicians and fans, nightclub managers,
and others, Russia Gets the Blues reveals the fascinating history
of blues in Russia, from the initial mimicry of British blues-rock
to the recent emergence of a specifically "Russian blues." The
gradual mastering of the idiom in Russia has been conditioned by
the culture of the country's intelligentsia, a fact explaining why,
on one hand, bliuzmeny feel compelled to proselytize on behalf of
the music, to share with others this treasure of "world culture,"
while, on the other, they perform blues almost exclusively in
English which almost no one understands and condemn any and all
efforts to make the music commercially successful."
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