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Performing Tsarist Russia in New York - Music, Emigres, and the American Imagination (Hardcover)
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Performing Tsarist Russia in New York - Music, Emigres, and the American Imagination (Hardcover)
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Offering a rare look at the musical life of Russia Abroad as it
unfolded in New York City, Natalie K. Zelensky examines the popular
music culture of the post-Bolshevik Russian emigration and the
impact made by this group on American culture and politics.
Performing Tsarist Russia in New York begins with a rich account of
the musical evenings that took place in the Russian emigre enclave
of Harlem in the 1920s and weaves through the world of Manhattan's
Russian restaurants, Tin Pan Alley industry, Broadway productions,
1939 World's Fair, Soviet music distributors, postwar Russian
parish musical life, and Cold War radio programming to close with
today's Russian ball scene, exploring how the idea of Russia Abroad
has taken shape through various spheres of music production in New
York over the course of a century. Engaging in an analysis of
musical styles, performance practice, sheet music cover art, the
discourses surrounding this music, and the sonic, somatic, and
social realms of dance, Zelensky demonstrates the central role
played by music in shaping and maintaining the Russian emigre
diaspora over multiple generations as well as the fundamental
paradox underlying this process: that music's sustaining power in
this case rests on its proclivity to foster collective narratives
of an idealized prerevolutionary Russia while often evolving
stylistically to remain relevant to its makers, listeners, and
dancers. By combining archival research with fieldwork and
interviews with Russian emigres of various generations and
emigration waves, Performing Tsarist Russia in New York presents a
close historical and ethnographic examination of music's potential
as an aesthetic, discursive, and social space through which
diasporans can engage with an idea of a mythologized homeland, and,
in turn, the vital role played by music in the organization,
development, and reception of Russia Abroad.
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