Performing Tsarist Russia in New York (eBook)

Music, Emigres, and the American Imagination

Natalie K. Zelensky (Autor)

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2019
254 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04122-7 (ISBN)

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By combining archival research with fieldwork and interviews with Russian émigrés of various generations and emigration waves, Performing Tsarist Russia in New York presents a close historical and ethnographic examination of music's potential as an aesthetic, discursive, and social space through which diasporans can engage with an idea of a mythologized homeland, and, in turn, the vital role played by music in the organization, development, and reception of Russia Abroad.

1. This book is a window into the intersection between Russian popular music and American popular culture in the early 20th century.

2. It sparks a new discussion on Russian émigré composers in the United States by looking at the influence of the First Wave Russian diaspora and their music up through the Post-soviet era. This study goes further than previous studies, which have usually stopped at the start of World War II.

3. Author Natalie Zelensky is an up-and-coming scholar who writes in a very accessible way and makes clear how relevant this topic is to current events regarding the relationship between the United States and Russia, and the role of immigrants in American society.

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An examination of the popular music culture of the post-Bolshevik Russian emigration and the impact made by this group on American culture and politics.Performing Tsarist Russia in New York begins with a rich account of the musical evenings that took place in the Russian emigre enclave of Harlem in the 1920s and weaves through the world of Manhattan's Russian restaurants, Tin Pan Alley industry, Broadway productions, 1939 World's Fair, Soviet music distributors, postwar Russian parish musical life, and Cold War radio programming to close with today's Russian ball scene, exploring how the idea of Russia Abroad has taken shape through various spheres of music production in New York over the course of a century. Engaging in an analysis of musical styles, performance practice, sheet music cover art, the discourses surrounding this music, and the sonic, somatic, and social realms of dance, author Natalie K. Zelensky demonstrates the central role played by music in shaping and maintaining the Russian emigre diaspora over multiple generations as well as the fundamental paradox underlying this process: that music's sustaining power in this case rests on its proclivity to foster collective narratives of an idealized prerevolutionary Russia while often evolving stylistically to remain relevant to its makers, listeners, and dancers. By combining archival research with fieldwork and interviews with Russian emigres of various generations and emigration waves, Zelensky presents a close historical and ethnographic examination of music's potential as an aesthetic, discursive, and social space through which diasporans can engage with an idea of a mythologized homeland, and, in turn, the vital role played by music in the organization, development, and reception of Russia Abroad.

Autor

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Natalie K. Zelensky is Assistant Professor of Music at Colby College. Her work on music of the Russian diaspora has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities, Ethnomusicology Forum, and Russia Abroad: Music and Orthodoxy. In 2013, she was a NEH fellow for "America's Russian-Speaking Immigrants and Refugees: 20th-Century Migration and Memory" at Columbia University's Harriman Institute, the research and academic exchange that played an important part in preparing Performing Tsarist Russia in New York.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Performing a la Russe: Music, Migration, and the White Russians in 1920s Harlem

2. New York's Russian Vogue: The Fox Trotsky and Other Musical Delights

3. Emigration at the Boundary: Russian DPs, the Second Generation, and Soviet Song in the World War II Era

4. Radio Liberty, Vernon Duke, and the 'Internal' Russian Voice in Cold War Broadcasting

5. Old Russia at The Pierre: Music, Dancing, and Enchantment in Twenty-First Century New York

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.4.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Russian Music Studies
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b&w illus., 8 music exx.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: 1920s • 1930s • 1939 World’s Fair • Adia Kuznetzoff • Alexandra Tolstoy • American History • American Music • Amkniga • Anti-Communism • Basil Fomeen • biomythography • boundary maintenance • Broadway • Cabaret • Chauve Souris • Cold War • Dance • Dark Eyes • Diaspora • Displaced Persons • Don Cossack Choir • Embodiment • Emigration • Emigration Waves • Ethnomusicology • First Wave • Folk Dance • Folk music • Fox-trot • Gypsy • Harlem • Hopak • Ilya Tolstoy • Immigration • Imperial Russia • Indiana University Press • IUP • IU Press • Jazz • multi-generational • music • Natalie K. Zelensky • New York City • Nikita Balieff • Nostalgia • Ochi Chernye • Performing Tsarist Russia in New York • Performing Tsarist Russia in New York: Music, Émigrés, and the American Imagination • Petroushka Ball • political exiles • popular music • Post-Bolshevik • Prerevolutionary Russia • Radio • radio liberty • Russia • Russian History • Russian Music • Russian Nobility Association • Russian Vogue • Second Wave • Soviet Union • Soviet wartime songs • toska • tsar • Tsarist Russia • United States • Vera Tolstoy • Vernon Duke • Vladimir Dukelsky • World War II • Zelensky
• ISBN-10: 0-253-04122-8 / 0253041228
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04122-7 / 9780253041227