hi everybody,

i do speak swedish by paternal curse, so i can sum up the titles
(just got the journal today and there are not that many articles
regarding music :-()

the ones interesting are:

- Made in the U.S.S.R - Benzo - klingande beraettelser fraan ett land
som inte finns - Adam Persson
Interview with Richardas Norvila, one of the two members of the
electronic group Benzo

- Om ni visste ur vilken smuts dessa dikter vaexer - Nikon och gatans
poetik i S:t Petersburg - Adam Persson
["If you knew from what dirt these poems grew - Nikon and the streets
poetry in St. Petersburg]. Interview with Alexei Nikonov, PTVP's
singer and poet (the interview is more about his poetry than about
the band)

- excerpt from "Teknik foer snabbt skrivande" [Technique for speed
writing] (2004) by Nikonov

- "Avantgard och Tradition - En afton paa Theremin Center i saellskap
med Stefan Tcherepnin" - Adam Persson
["Avantgarde and tradition - an evening at the Theremin Center in the
company of Stefan Tcherepnin"] article about the Thermin and
Tcherepnin (and his family history)

- "Taarta och Flamenco - paa jakt efter musikens vaesen med Alexei
Borisov" - Adam Persson
["Cake and flamenco - chasing the soul/shape of music with Alexei
Borisvo"] - an interview with the electronic music pioneer Alexei
Borisov (Nochnoi Prospekt, ZGA, Kuriochin)

- "Maenniskorna och instrumenten - elektronisk musik i Ryssland" -
Alexei Borisov
["Humans and instruments - electronic music in Russia"] - a short
history of electronic music in Russia - quite interesting, charts
Borisov's history and different bands in Moscow and influences.

- "My trip to Russia" - Dr. Eugene Chadbourne
Chadbourne recollects his trip to Russia in 2002 where he played in
Moscow and at SKIF-6 in Piter

the other articles are about literature.

i'm off to lunch! ;-)

have a good weekend,

david-emil

On 24 May 2007, at 23:23, Ira Kormannshaus wrote:

>
> Hi David-Emil, hi all,
> thanks for the hints!
> As (probably not just) my Swedish is zero, is there anyone in our
> list being able to give a summary of the first book in English?
> I already looked at the description of the secod book and could
> translate that over the weekend.
> Ira
>
> > hi,
> >
> > two journals came out with an edition on russia with some articles
> > on
> > russian popular music which might be worth checking out:
> >
> > - Subaltern · #1 - 2007 · Ryssland (in swedish) -
> > href="http://www.hstrom.nu/f/component/page,shop.product_details/
> flypage,sho
> > p.flypage/product_id,124/category_id,1/manufacturer_id,0/
> option,com_virtuema
> > rt/Itemid,41/
> >
> > - osteuropa: Der Osten im Westen - Importe der Populärkultur (in
> > german):
> > http://osteuropa.dgo-online.org/376.0.html
> >
> > greetings from a gray copenhagen,
> >
> > david-emil
> > ---
> > OS4MY
> > david-emil wickström
> > phd fellow
> > "transformations in russian popular music of the post-soviet era -
> > case study st. petersburg"
> > københavns universitet, denmark
> > phd.d-ew.info
> >
>
> Ira Kormannshaus Kolonnenstr. 47
> translations German, 10829 Berlin
> English, Russian Tel./Fax: +49-30-784 67 47
> mailto: ira.k@...
>
>
>

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"transformations in russian popular music of the post-soviet era -
case study st. petersburg"
københavns universitet, denmark
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