Roll over, Tchaikovsky! :: Russian popular music and post-Soviet 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 phenomenologica...

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Main Author: Amico, Stephen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Series:New perspectives on gender in music.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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 argues that the homosexual body in post-Soviet Russia rejects both the Soviet aversion to physical pleasure and the Western politicization of sexuality. Instead, both listeners and performers turn to popular music for a framework within which they can experience an embodied sense of sexuality, the self, and intersubjectivity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 316 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780252096143
0252096142