Estrada?!: Grand Narratives and the Philosophy of the Russian Popular Song Since Perestroika

by David MacFadyen

In Estrada? , the second volume of a three-part series on Russian popular song, David MacFadyen extends his overview of Russian culture and society into the post-Soviet period. Having dispelled several myths surrounding Soviet popular entertainment - known as "estrada" or the "small stage" - in Red Stars, MacFadyen shifts his attention to a newer musical tradition that has emerged from the simultaneous disappearance of Soviet ideology and the loud...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773523715
• ISBN13: 9780773523715
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.5"