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Red Stars: Personality and the Soviet Popular Song, 1955-1991

By David MacFadyen

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
9780773568792
DOI
10.1515/9780773568792
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7140576 bytes)
Pages
336\331
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 19:04:55

Description

Red Stars tells the story of seven singers; Èdita P'ekha, Iosif Kobzon, Lev Leshchenko, Sofiia Rotaru, Valerii Leont'ev, Alla Pugacheva, and Irina Ponarovskaia. Their songs, broadcast on Soviet radio every day for decades and sometimes selling hundreds of millions of copies, tell the story of Soviet popular culture since the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Collectively the seven embody the efforts of a generation to fashion a new worldview.

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