Visions of the (Holy) Motherland in Contemporary Russian Popular Music: Nostalgia, Patriotism, Religion and<i>Russkii Rok</i>

Wickström, David-Emil; Steinholt, Yngvar B.

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“…Generally, this theory traces the roots of societies' openness, as well as the open world shaping and feeling (in this case, an open world is not equal to the contemporary understanding of the globalized world). However, cosmopolitanism does not seem to be an acceptable explanation of the findings of this study because of the well-shaped identity of the Russian society and the strong feeling of patriotism [58][59][60][61][62]. The registered imprint of foreign cultures and names can be explained partly by the global nature of the entire hospitality industry and the naming practices preferred by some international hotel chains existing on the Russian market.…”

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Hotel Naming in Russian Cities: An Imprint of Foreign Cultures and Languages between Europe and Asia

2022

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Hotel naming can contribute to cultural exchange, and big countries boasting lengthy peripheries and sharp “cores” are suitable for studying this contribution. Foreign cultural and linguistic imprints in hotel names is studied in four big cities of Russia, namely Rostov-on-Don, Nizhniy Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk, and Vladivostok. It is established that the hotels with names bearing foreign-culture elements constitute up to 20–25% of all hotels in each given city. These elements can be linked to many, chiefly West European countries. The English foreign-language elements are the most common, whereas the French and Italian elements occur in subordinate numbers. The linguistic-cultural types of the hotel names are commonly toponyms and landscape-related symbols. The imprint of foreign cultures and languages in the hotel names diminishes together with the increase in distance from the western state border.

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Hotel Naming in Russian Cities: An Imprint of Foreign Cultures and Languages between Europe and Asia

2022

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“…61 The band performed on Moscow's Red Square in 2008 at the celebration for Dmitry Medvedev's election as Russia's president. 62 Its leader, Vladimir Shakhrin, has repeatedly distanced himself from the protesters, whom he caricatured as "spoiled hipsters." 63 Another band that graced the Shashlik Live stage in 2019 (and Red Square in 2008) was Splin, but their participation complicates the picture of compliance thus far presented.…”

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Songwashing: Russian Popular Music, Distraction, and Putin’s Fourth Term

Biasioli¹

2023

The Russian Review

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This article investigates how the Russian state apparatus, in its diverse, loose, and undercoordinated points of affiliation, used contemporary popular music to its own advantage during Vladimir Putin’s fourth term and before the full‐scale war in Ukraine. I propose that the different state branches’ efforts at appropriating music in order to distract audiences can be grouped into a single, novel framework of “songwashing.” This entails the state utilization of the allure of music to cover up domestic political issues, such as problems with legitimation, civic discontent, and minority rights, while promoting a different, positive image abroad. Following two case studies—the 2019 summer festivals Shashlik Live and Meat & Beat in Moscow, and Tajik‐born singer Manizha’s participation in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest—the article also assesses how songwashing mechanisms are exposed and resisted.

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“…While not the only possible framework for mapping the past, the Motherland-centric patriotic discourse in Russia has received strong support 'from above' in recent years. Through parliamentary initiatives, television programs, school textbooks (Tsyrlina-Spady and Lovorn 2015), and musical performances (Wickström and Steinholt 2009), state patriotism has increasingly saturated both the media and politics. Indeed, according to the Russian president, 'we have no other, and there can be no other unifying idea but patriotism.'…”

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When Memorials Cease to Commemorate: The Museum of the History of Political Repression in Tomsk as a Place of non-Patriotic Remembering

Skulskiy¹

2019

Mus. Soc.

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This article examines tourists' experiences of visiting the Tomsk Memorial Museum of Political Repression. Through a semiological reading of the exhibitions and textual analysis of visitor books, I show how despite the museum's proclaimed purpose as a place of remembrance, tourists frame their visits in terms of education and entertainment. Referring to memory as a discursive practice, I demonstrate how the exhibition does not fit the dominant patriotic discourse, wherein actors are remembered for their contributions to the Motherland. Because those killed in Gulags are represented as victims rather than heroes, their story remains insignificant and immemorable to many Russians.

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Visions of the (Holy) Motherland in Contemporary Russian Popular Music: Nostalgia, Patriotism, Religion andRusskii Rok

Cited by 12 publications

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Hotel Naming in Russian Cities: An Imprint of Foreign Cultures and Languages between Europe and Asia

Hotel Naming in Russian Cities: An Imprint of Foreign Cultures and Languages between Europe and Asia

Songwashing: Russian Popular Music, Distraction, and Putin’s Fourth Term

When Memorials Cease to Commemorate: The Museum of the History of Political Repression in Tomsk as a Place of non-Patriotic Remembering

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