Performing Russia: Folk Revival and Russian Identity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415326148)

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.

Author: Laura Olson
ISBN-10: 0415326141
ISBN-13: 9780415326148
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 01/22/2004
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.40w x 0.89d