Of Mermaids and Rock Singers: Placing the Self and Constructing the Nation THrough Belarusan Contemporary Music / Edition 1

by Maria Paula Survilla

Overview

This book examines the roles, functions, and interpretations of rock music as part of the initial push towards exploring national and personal identities in a newly independent Belarus. It also includes a summary of rock concert activity in Belarus.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415940146
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/19/2002
Series:	Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations , #2
Edition description:	BOOK & CD
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

List Of Illustrations — Notes to Accompanying CD — The Transliteration of the Belarusan Language — Acknowledgments — Preface — 1."2yvie Bielarus!”: Nationalism, Critiques, and Cultural Responses — Identity and Nation — Explanations of Identity Construction: Eastern Europe in the Western Press — 2.Terminology, Controversy, and the Interpretation of History — Steps Towards Independence — Terminology — National Origins and the "Golden Era" — Aggressive Colonization — Rebellion — The Twentieth Century — 3."Stand in the doorway": Entrances and Exits in Urban Belarus — Singular Visions and Multiple Directions in Urban Belarus — The Public and the Private — Expectations for Change in Belarus — "And what please, is a please . . .?" — Popular Culture Without a Marketplace: Perfume, Lipstick, and the Soaps — Red Wine and Radiation: Chernobyl in Everyday Life — Conclusion — 4.From Legislation to the Renaissance: Belarusan Rock and Urban Folklore — Generalities and Specifics of the Soviet Rock Scene — The Piesniary [Songsters]: From VIA to "Piesniarok" — Defining the Elements of "Good?" Belarusan Rock — 5.Of Mermaids and Rock Singers: Ethnography and Shifting Authority in Palac's "Rusalki" — Culture Contact and the Expedition — "Young girls, our sisters . . ." — 6.Ulis: "America is Where I am" — Group Dynamics and the Practice Space — Defining Ulis and Belarusan Rock — 7.From Bard to Rock Star: Kasia Kamockaja — Gender and Belarusan Rock — Novaje Nieba's Kasia Kamockaja: from Bard to Rock Star — Image, Belonging, and Association — 8.National Republic of Mroja [Dream]: Quotation and the Kangaroo — 9.Rock and Revolution: Performance and the Mediation of Rock — Rock and Revolution: Performance and the Mediation of Rock — Bibliography — Discography — Index.