Russia Gets the Blues

by Michael E. Urban

Book Overview

Michael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance of the genre in the turbulent, postcommunist society. Russians, he explains, have taken a music originating in the "low" culture of the American South and transformed it into an object of "high" culture, fashioning a social identity that distinguishes blues adherents from both the discredited Soviet past and the vulgar consumerism associated with the country's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080144229X
• ISBN13: 9780801442292
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher