The Sounds of Music

In this article, David C. Gillespie explores the deliberate foregrounding of music and song in Soviet film. He begins with a discussion of the structural and organizing roles of music and song in early Soviet sound films, including tiiose by Sergei Eizenshtein, Grigorii Aleksandrov, Ivan Pyr'ev, and Aleksandr Ivanovskii. Gillespie then focuses on the emphasis on urban song in some of the most popular films of the stagnation years, such asThe White Sun of the Desert (1969) and Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears(1979), adding considerably to the appreciation of these films. To conclude, he analyzes folk music in films about village life, especially those directed by Vasilii Shukshin, and explores the role of music in constructing a mythical and nationalistic discourse

Aesthetics · Art · Foregrounding · Literature · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Soviet and Russian History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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