Roll Over, Tchaikovsky!: Russian Popular Music and Post-Soviet Homosexuality

by Stephen Amico

Book Overview

Centered on the musical experiences of homosexual men in St. Petersburg and Moscow, this ground-breaking study examines how post-Soviet popular music both informs and plays off of a corporeal understanding of Russian male homosexuality. Drawing upon ethnography, musical analysis, and phenomenological theory, Stephen Amico offers an expert technical analysis of Russian rock, pop, and estrada music, dovetailing into an illuminating discussion of homosexual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252083083
• ISBN13: 9780252083082
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 336 Pages