Deterritorialized Nationality

Viktor Tsoi Saves the World

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4213047
AutoresSteven Lee (0000-0002-4935-9263, University of California, Berkeley, autor de correspondencia), Steven S Lee
Año2023
Volumen82
Número1
Páginas159-183
Fecha de publicación2023-01-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSlavic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/slr.2023.98
OpenAlexW4385559494
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas2

This article uses Alexei Yurchak's account of late socialist performance and the deterritorialization of authoritative discourses to discuss the half-Korean identity of Viktor Tsoi, the most prominent rock start emerging from the perestroika period. It uses representations and perceptions of Tsoi from the 1980s to argue that in this period, it was possible to perform the nationalities listed in each Soviet citizen's passport, as well as official slogans like "the friendship of peoples," in ways that allowed for flexible understandings of group identity-what the article conceptualizes as "deterritorialized nationality" via overviews of Soviet nationalities policy and the history of Soviet Koreans. The article illustrates deterritorialized nationality through readings of the landmark films Assa (1987), which concludes with a performance by Tsoi, and Needle (1988), which stars and features the music of Tsoi. In both films Tsoi's racial difference is evident in ways not possible in his music alone, but race takes on unanticipated meanings-hearkening to radical internationalisms that help us to think beyond our ever more polarized discussions surrounding identity in the west, as well as the renewed polarization of Russia and the west

Aesthetics · Deterritorialization · Friendship · Identity (music · Immigration · National identity · Nationality · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History

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