TV Project "Old Songs About the Most Important": the Destiny of Nostalgia in the Context of Post-Soviet Culture

DOI

10.2991/icassee-19.2019.30How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Soviet culture; popular music; Soviet variety art; television; the nineties; recycling; nostalgia; film music; music clips

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the elicitation of dramatic features peculiar to a series of TV music programmes called "Stariye pesni o glavnom" ("Old Songs About the Most Important"). Drawing on the first three episodes, the author analyzes how the revival of Soviet culture began in the crucial '90s. A thorough analysis of various songs performed on the project helps to trace the emergence of a new form of a New Year TV show. The author compares the distinctive features of characters and plotlines in the original works and their reconstruction. As a result, the conclusion is drawn that the project, starting as nostalgia for the Soviet period, has gradually turned into the deconstruction of this nostalgia by means of total irony.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Daria Zhurkova
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - TV Project "Old Songs About the Most Important": the Destiny of Nostalgia in the Context of Post-Soviet Culture
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 150
EP  - 156
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icassee-19.2019.30
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