[Linganth] today on CaMP anthropology--Maria Sonevytsky

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the CaMP blog, Ifigeneia Gianne chats with Maria Sonevytsky,
exploring her book Tantsi.

www.campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:

Rock 'n' roll may not have toppled the USSR, but it definitely rumbled
through its foundations. Unlike the often-saccharine pop music sanctioned
by the Soviet state, Ukrainian punk musicians of the 1980s Kyiv underground
adapted ideologies of rock to roast the absurdities of late Soviet life, to
articulate new ways of being Ukrainian, and to celebrate the cathartic
pleasures of collective gatherings organized around musical performances.

This book tells the story of *Tantsi *(*Dances*) a 1989 semi-official
cassette release by the now-legendary Ukrainian punk band Vopli
Vidopliassova, known to fans simply as VV (pronounced “Ve-Ve”). Their
disruptive musical sounds, ironic lyrics, use of language, and propulsive
performances toyed with the distinctions between official and unofficial
Soviet culture. VV's *Tantsi* exemplifies how Soviet musical cultures
existed within an ecosystem of contradictions as entrenched state
infrastructures collided with emergent youth subcultures on the quicksand
of late Soviet life. Today, *Tantsi* continues to invite us to dance while
we laugh (or cry) at the absurdities of everyday life.
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