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Philip Ross Bullock
The Transnational Lyric Community of Soviet Unofficial Music under Late Socialism
Despite the seeming liberalism of Khrushchev’s ‘Thaw’, limitations were still placed on the Soviet arts, and the era witnessed the emergence of a parallel form of underground or unofficial culture. This essay considers a number of vocal works by composers, including Gubaidulina and Schnittke, who experimented with a cosmopolitan range of literary texts, as well as with a more radical musical language. In doing so, these composers not only established a lyric community at home but also engaged with their counterparts in avant-garde circles in Western Europe.
Keywords: song; Soviet Union; underground; Gubaidulina; Schnittke; avant-garde; cosmopolitanism
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The Transnational Lyric Community of Soviet Unofficial Music under Late Socialism
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Philip Ross Bullock
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Despite the seeming liberalism of Khrushchev’s ‘Thaw’, limitations were still placed on the Soviet arts, and the era witnessed the emergence of a parallel form of underground or unofficial culture. This essay considers a number of vocal works by composers, including Gubaidulina and Schnittke, who experimented with a cosmopolitan range of literary texts, as well as with a more radical musical language. In doing so, these composers not only established a lyric community at home but also engaged with their counterparts in avant-garde circles in Western Europe.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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28 October 2024
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song
Soviet Union
underground
Gubaidulina
Schnittke
avant-garde
cosmopolitanism
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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113
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133
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Rethinking Lyric Communities, ed. by Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, and Laura Scuriatti, Cultural Inquiry, 30 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024), pp. 113–33
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Publication scheduled for 28 October 2024
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Cite as:
Philip Ross Bullock, ‘The Transnational Lyric Community of Soviet Unofficial Music under Late Socialism’, in Rethinking Lyric Communities, ed. by Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, and Laura Scuriatti, Cultural Inquiry, 30 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024), pp. 113-33 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-30_05>