Roll Over, Tchaikovsky!

Russian Popular Music and Post-Soviet Homosexuality

Stephen Amico (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2014
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-03827-3 (ISBN)

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Centered on the musical experiences of homosexual men in St Petersburg and Moscow, this book examines how post-Soviet popular music both informs and plays off of a corporeal understanding of Russian male homosexuality.

Centered on the musical experiences of homosexual men in St. Petersburg and Moscow, this ground-breaking study examines how post-Soviet popular music both informs and plays off of a corporeal understanding of Russian male homosexuality. Drawing upon ethnography, musical analysis, and phenomenological theory, Stephen Amico offers an expert technical analysis of Russian rock, pop, and estrada music, dovetailing into an illuminating discussion of homosexual men's physical and bodily perceptions of music. He also outlines how popular music performers use song lyrics, drag, physical movements, images of women, sexualized male bodies, and other tools and tropes to implicitly or explicitly express sexual orientation through performance. Finally, Amico uncovers how such performances help homosexual Russian men to create their own social spaces and selves, in meaningful relation to others with whom they share a "nontraditional orientation."

Stephen Amico is an assistant professor in the departments of music and media studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Reihe/Serie	New Perspectives on Gender in Music
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-252-03827-4 / 0252038274
ISBN-13	978-0-252-03827-3 / 9780252038273
Zustand	Neuware