Performing Russia: Folk Revival and Russian Identity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415406178)

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: 041540617X
ISBN-13: 9780415406178
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 01/22/2004
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d