Greetings! My name is Charles Byrd. I am a specialist in Russian literature here at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A and teach many beginning...
hi! ... Actually "Father - glass of portwine" (Papa - stakan portveina) which both refers to the cheepest wine available and (which Michael Urban mentions in...
I've never really seen that song as particularly political. I believe it is called a "parody of the Sex Pistols" on the album. Tsoi claims to have written...
... i just talked to one of my friends here, andrei, who has been active within the music scene in piter since the 1980s. i asked him what meaning the song had...
Many thanks to all who have responded to my message. I'm glad to know that the song is still played and particularly appreciate suggested improvements to the...
That is a very impressive site. A brief look at the translations shows them to be fairly good (excellent for a sixteen year old who says she knows Russian...
I find Anthony Qualin's suggestion that the "red" and "blue" should be taken as "blood" and "bruise" far from mundane; among the various connotations of the...
"Portvein" was an interesting Soviet phenomenon in and of itself. They produced a number of portveins most of which were simply wine fortified with grain...
I've asked Yuri Domanski, the leader of the research group of Russian Rock Poetry at the university of Tver', about "Mama Anarkhia" and "krasno-sinii". Here is...
Evelyn Radke
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Jan 10, 2006 4:49 pm
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Dear all, I'm organising a panel on 'Identities in Soviet and post-Soviet Popular Music' at AAASS in November in Washington DC, and looking for a discussant ...
Dear Polly, I hope this finds you well. Since I have not heard from you regarding AAASS panel you are organising for which I volunteered to be a chair, I...
Privet vsem, my s drugimi italjanskimi aspirantami sobiraem nauchnuju literaturu o russkom roke: ja dovol'no xorosho znaju russkuju i italjanskuju literaturu...
You should really read http://www.lib.ru/CULTURE/MUSIC/SMIRNOW/kolokolchiki.txt I don't have this book in paper, and it was scanned poorly, still that's a must...
Dear Mr. Mazzanti, This may sound very egotistical, but I will recommend my RUSSIA GETS THE BLUES (Cornell Univ. Press, 2004) which contains a large number of...
Michael Urban
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Feb 2, 2006 7:04 am
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Hi! Besides Il'ia Smirnov's and Michael Urban's books You should check out Yngvar Steinholt's dissertation "Rock in the Reservation: Songs from the Leningrad...
My 10 cents: I need to bring to the attention of the bibliography-seekers my article on Russian rock in Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World:...
Dear colleagues, I have been a member the list since the start, so it is half past high time I introduce myself. I hope to participate more actively in...
Yngvar B. Steinholt
Yngvar.Steinholt@...
Feb 3, 2006 9:45 am
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Hi all, I'm not that new to the group, but was just too busy lately... With some friends I'm working on a project collecting music clips from Central- and...
Ira Kormannshaus
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Feb 5, 2006 11:12 am
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hi everdybody, i'm also a new member of the russian pop music group. my name is thomas and at the moment i am still a student at the university of basel, but i...
Hi, Let me first present myself. I live in New York City for around 11 years. I am one of orgnizers of Russian Rock Club of America, which is going to...
Hi, some news from the Far East: If you want to listen to young rock groups from Vladivostok, go to www.rockradio.de -> on air. This station usually plays ...
Evelyn Radke
evelyn_radke@...
Mar 3, 2006 11:52 pm
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I might as well introduce myself as I am new. My name's Joe Crescente. I am a graduate student at Indiana University. Currently I am researching Russian...
hi! thank you joe for your introduction! your project sounds interesting - could you maybe elaborate a little. furthermore, i was wondering, what kind of music...
Hi David, My project concerns defining Chanson essentially. I've asked 50 different Russians what Chanson is, and I've received 50 different answers. I believe...
Hi, just wanted to chime in here for the first time, because your inability to get a "good definition" of chanson from Russians mirrors my experience. While...
hi! thank you stephen and joe for you introductory messages and interesting comments. just some thoughts that came to my mind. regarding chanson and stephen's...
The distinction between Popsa and Chanson, in my opinion, is that the one (Popsa) is based upon western modern techno/"sugar pop" music and that Chanson is a...
That might be true on a "sociological level," but on a purely musical level, much of popsa has very little to do with "western" pop. Much of it, in fact, is...
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