Outlaw Music in Russia: The Rise of an Unlikely Genre

by Anastasia Gordienko

The Russian shanson can be heard across the country today, on radio and television shows, at mass events like political rallies, and even at the Kremlin. Yet despite its ubiquity, it has attracted almost no scholarly attention. Anastasia Gordienko provides the first full history of the shanson, from its tenuous ties to early modern criminals' and robbers' folk songs, through its immediate generic predecessors in the Soviet Union,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299340104
• ISBN13: 9780299340100
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"