Red Stars: Personality and the Soviet Popular Song, 1955-1991 - Couverture rigide

MacFadyen, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0773521062 ISBN 13 : 9780773521063

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David MacFadyen is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. He has written extensively on Soviet popular culture and is the author of The Sad Comedy of Èl'dar Riazanov and several books on Joseph Brodsky.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0773521062
• ISBN 13: 9780773521063
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
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• Personne responsable: non disponible