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dc.contributor.authorSteinholt, Yngvar B.
dc.date.accessioned2012-11-02T09:53:29Z
dc.date.available2012-11-02T09:53:29Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractAny study of punk rock in Russia will in some way come into contact with the massive influence of Egor Letov, his band Grazhdanskaia Oborona, and their extensive output during the late 1980s. Academia has thus far been reluctant to study the band because of its leader's involvement with dubious right-wing movements and his many tasteless and provocative media stunts during the 1990s. By taking its point of departure in Letov's songs from four stages of his band's development, this article seeks to shed light on Grazhdanskaia Oborona's contribution to the development of punk in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. When it comes to Letov's extremist views in the latter half of his career it attempts to venture beyond reductionist notions of fascism, into the complex landscape of the paradoxical and often confusing mixture of extreme ideologies that sprang out of the Soviet collapse. It will argue that Letov's work – his songs – come over as a lot less contradictory and ideologically extreme than their author's political stunts would suggest. Their aesthetics and ideology are first and foremost punk.en
dc.identifier.citationPopular Music 31(2012) nr. 3 s. 401-415en
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 941488
dc.identifier.issn0261-1430
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/4607
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_4322
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectPønken
dc.subjectRusslanden
dc.subjectPopulærmusikkvitenskapen
dc.subjectNasjonalismeen
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Musicology: 110::Alternative musicology: 119en
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Musikkvitenskap: 110::Annen musikkvitenskap: 119en
dc.titleSiberian punk shall emerge here : Egor Letov and Grazhdanskaia Oboronaen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen
dc.typePeer revieweden


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