rock music in late Soviet literature

[mikhail lipyanskiy]

oh and Igla
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> Well, if we are including movies, what about "Rozygrysh"?
> 
> 
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> If I may add - I think looking at the films of that time might be a
> better
> option (if the option exists at all) if one was to look for rock
> music/counterculture. I was thinking of "Assa" but I am sure there are
> others.
> 
> ML
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> From: "Mark Yoffe" <yoffe at GWU.EDU>
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> 
> > Indeed rock music is almost untouched in Soviet period literature.
> > Vladimir Rekshan, former leader of one of Leningrad's earliest rock
> bands
> Sankt Peterburg touches upon rock in many of his later novels. See
> particularly his Kaif polnyi (1990). His earlier book Tretii zakon
> Niutona
> (1986) surprisingly almost does not touch upon rock at all.
> > Rock is mostly just mentioned in Soviet literature, if acknowledged at
> all. Aksenov, indeed is the only one who calls it by its real name,
> acknowledges the phenomenon, and describes related youth movements, such
> as
> hippie thing (particularly in his strangely daring for mid 70s V
> poiskakh
> zhanra). He also mentions rock in Ostrov Krym.
> > Yuri Trifonov mentions rock music in Predvaritel'nye itogi, but calls
> a
> rock band a "bit gruppa." And generally seems to be suspicious about the
> whole thing.
> > Older generation of Soviet writers (excluding Aksenov) even the ones
> realistic or critical about the Soviet regime, still mostly viewed rock
> music as a "questionable" if not to say utterly negative phenomenon.
> Which
> was quite in line with Soviet official party line on the subject
> (expressed
> passionately by Kuniaev and Mikhalkov). That's why there is almost no
> mention of it in Soviet literature, as well as there is almost no
> mention of
> youth subcultures, counterculture and such. Even Vladimir Tendriakov,
> who
> wrote deeply about youth, shies away from the subject. As to emigre and
> underground writers of the period, it is another story, but still there
> is
> surprisingly almost nothing on the subject, except for Limonov's
> acknowledgement of his familiarity with rock music, and his professed
> love
> for it.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: A Smith <Alexandra.Smith at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
> > Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:09 pm
> > Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] rock music in late Soviet literature
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> >
> >
> > > --I was just wondering if anyone knows of any Soviet fiction
> > >  >from the 1970s or 1980s (or even 1990s), that explicitly deals
> > >  >with rock music or rock musicians. ---
> > >
> > >  Dear Dunja,
> > >
> > >  Although your question was about fiction, you might be interested
> to
> > > know about
> > >  Viktor Krivulin's long poem dedicated to Kurekhin "Kontsert pamiati
> Kurekhina"
> > >  (1997):
> > >
> > >
> > >  All best,
> > >  Alexandra Smith
> > >
> > >  Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
> > >  Lecturer in Russian,
> > >  Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies,
> > >  University of Sheffield, UK.
> > >
> >
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