xenophobia under the guise of national identity

[Alina Israeli]

I am not a historian of pop music, but the severe (let's call it  
that) nationalism did not start under Putin, and I believe  
Bichevskaya was not the first one, although I may be wrong. I have a  
record of the late 80's by Alexandre Malinin посвященная великому  
русскому народу (does remind a bit of pre-war Germany), Gazmanov had  
some xeno-nationalistic songs at about the same time, and let's not  
forget the group Lube, which really toned it down when they  
discovered that they could earn good money touring Israel and it's  
million Russian-speaking theater-going people.


Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington DC. 20016
(202) 885-2387 	
fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu




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