Interactive CD on Russian Folklore

[Marcus Levitt]

Dear Colleagues,
  I am helping to market these CDs for my Russian colleagues; I only have a
few dozen copies, and expect them to sell out quickly, although we might be
able to acquire more from Russia if you need them.
   Yours, M. Levitt

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A limited quantity of this new INTERACTIVE CD-ROM is now
available:

“TRADITSISONNAIA KUL’TURA STAROBRIADTSEV
(SEMEISKIKH) ZABAKAL’IA:
Spravochno-bibliograficheskii CD”

(The Traditional Culture of the Semeiskii Old Believers of
Transbaikal:
A Reference CD)

Compiled and edited by Dr. Vladimir Kliauz (Moscow, 2002).

This unique CD-ROM contains video clips, audio, photo, and
textual materials on the Semeiskie Old Believers of Transbaikal.
The CD,  which is all in Russian, includes:

·   complete texts of many rare and inaccessible primary and
    secondary publications on the Semeiskie;
·   videoclips of various holiday and other rituals;
·   a complete bibliography on the Semeiskie, including
    materials on their history, material culture, music,
    language and folklore;
·   folk songs (including lyrics) as well as other recordings;
·   an extensive photo archive (including icons)

Requires Win98 or 2000.

This would be a wonderful resource for a graduate class on
Russian folkore or the Old Believers.  If you need a larger number
than I have available, I can probably arrange for more to be sent
from Russia.

Please also forward this message to your librarian!

Send a check for $30 plus $2 for postage and handling (sales tax
will be deducted as applicable) to:

Prof. Marcus C. Levitt
Dept. of Slavic Languages
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353
Levitt at usc.edu

Note that all of the money collected is going to support further
similar publications.

Also  -  I have gotten a small new shipment of the audio CD:

“PESNI SEMESISKIKH UKYRA (SONGS OF THE SEMEISKIE OF
UKIR)”   Moscow: Heritage Institute, 2001.

This CD includes fifteen original recordings and includes a liner with the
words. Cost- $15 each plus $1.50 postage and handling.

For information about the joint Russian-American expedition that
collected some of the materials for these CDs, see  Marcus C.
Levitt,  “Notes on a Joint Russian-American Expedition to the
Semeiskii Old Believers of Transbaikal,” and  Vladimir Kliauz,
“Video-Recording of Ritual Incantations and Folk Cures” Both in the
“Journal of  the Slavic and East European Folklore Association”
(SEEFA) 6: 2 (Fall 2001): 11-27; available online at:
http://www.virginia.edu/~slavic/seefa/INDEX.HTM

    Lastly!  There are still copies available of  “Eros and Pornography
    in Russian Culture  / Eros i pornografiia v russkoi kul’ture.”  Edited
    by Marcus C. Levitt and Andrei L. Toporkov.  In the Series
    “Russkaia potaennaia literatura.”  Moscow: Ladomir Publishers,
    1999.  700 pages; 29 color illustrations, 161 b/w illustrations.
    Hard cover.   This pioneering collection contains articles by Natalia
    Pushkareva, Eve Levin, Alexander Etkind, Helena Goscilo, Igor
    Kon, James Rice, Eliot Borenstein, and many others.  Send a
    check for $25.00. plus $2.00 postage and handling per copy to the
    above address.

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Marcus C. Levitt, Associate Professor
Chair, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353

Please note that all e-mail should be sent to me at
<Levitt at usc.edu> and not to either <Levitt at hermes.usc.edu>
or <Levitt at hermes2.usc.edu>.

tel. (213) 740-2736
fax  (213) 740-8550

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