Main Themes and Characters of the 1990s in the Cover Versions of Soviet Songs

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10.2991/assehr.k.200907.023How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Soviet culture, popular music, Soviet variety art, television, body culture studies, “Old Songs About the Most Important Things”, the nineties, recycling, nostalgia, film music, music clips, harem, gangsters

Abstract

The article investigates the aspects of recycling of the Soviet culture drawing on the example of a music TV show “Stariye pesni o glavnom” (“Old Songs About the Most Important Things”). It is traceable that there are main themes that are peculiar to the Russian reality of the 1990s and that are used in the reconstruction of the Soviet era both intentionally and spontaneously. The primary focus is on the features of body discourse, which becomes more and more explicit with each episode and, therefore, diverges from the canons of Soviet morality. This trend of bodily liberation reached its peak when the motif of harem was included in the narrative in the third episode. Another curious feature of the time is gangster characters who “wandered” from episode to episode, disguised in one way or another. The show romanticised the gangsters’ image, and the criminal world of the 1990s got its “pedigree” represented by charming, charismatic characters.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhurkova Daria
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/07
TI  - Main Themes and Characters of the 1990s in the Cover Versions of Soviet Songs
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 125
EP  - 131
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200907.023
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