The most Martian of Martianesses
Zhanna Aguzarova, (post-)Soviet rock 'n' roll, and the musico-linguistic creation of the 'outside
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4304317 |
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| Authors | Stephen Amico (University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 243-267 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261143014000294 |
| OpenAlex | W2077749004 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
This article focuses on the Soviet/post-Soviet singer Zhanna Aguzarova, as both frontwoman for the seminal Russian rock 'n' roll bandBravoand as a solo artist. Contextualising her musical output within the singer's frequent allusions to and performances of extraterrestrialism, and drawing upon works of Kristeva and Vygotskii, I contend that Aguzarova's voice and frequent use of vocables contributed to a creation of a performative space 'outside' of and in contradistinction to the linguistically over-determined 'official' Soviet space. In conclusion, however, I problematise the creation of a simple binary, showing how Aguzarova's musical Russianness, as well as her emigration from and return to Russia, constitute a type of 'rooted Otherness
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Astrobiology · Emigration · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Martian · Musical · Performative utterance · Physics · Simple (philosophy · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History
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Some Problems of Theory and Method in the Study of Musical Change
Pop Culture Russia
Language Policy in the Soviet Union
Language and Power in the Creation of the USSR, 1917-1953
Music and Language
Performing Russia
Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin
Notes from Underground
UFOs over Russia and Eastern Europe
Contemporary Russian Identity Between East and West
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Imagined communities
Queering the pitch
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
"Songs to Seven Strings (Russian Guitar Poetry and Soviet "Mass Song)
Identity Crisis and Postcommunist Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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