Independent Music in Russia - Escapism, Patriotism and Protest (2008-2022)

This book explores Russian independent music - nezavisimaia muzyka - in a time of profound transformations in Russian society, looking especially at the mutual influence between music and the socio-political context in which it was created.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One - The history, structures and politics of nezavisimaia muzyka
Chapter Two - "We also can. We're not worse": the Anglophone Wave (2008-2012)
Chapter Three - "I live in Russia and I'm not scared": Russia's conservative turn, the New Russian Wave and metamodernism (2012 - 2018)
Chapter Four - Patrioprotest: The ambiguous resistance of nezavisimaia muzyka (2018-2022)
Chapter Five - From the margins and back? The transnational spread of nezavisimaia muzyka
Conclusions

About the author

Marco Biasioli is a Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. His interests include Soviet, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian popular music, culture-power interactions, Russian literature and nationhood.

Product details

• Authors: Marco Biasioli
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.06.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781032164700
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3216470-0
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Rock, History, Popular Culture, Eastern Europe, Rock & Pop music, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Humanities, Regional Studies, Theory of music & musicology, Pop Music, Regional / International studies, Popular Music, Theory of music and musicology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General