TY - BOOK ID - 78140232 TI - Performing Russia PY - 2004 SN - 0203389891 1134341083 1280025190 0203317572 9780203317570 0415326141 9781134341078 1134341075 9780415406178 9781134341030 9781134341085 9780415326148 PB - London New York RoutledgeCurzon DB - UniCat KW - Folk music KW - Ethnic music KW - Traditional music KW - Folklore KW - Music KW - History and criticism. KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78140232 AB - This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why memory and tradition, in these particular forms, have taken on particular significance in different periods. Above all it shows how folk ""tradition"" in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented, and it demonstrates in particular how the ""folk revival"" has played a key role in strengthening Russian national consciousness in the post-Soviet period. ER -