Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality: Georgy Sviridov’s Russia Cast Adrift

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10.2991/icassee-18.2018.138How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Georgy Sviridov; Russian nationalism; Soviet culture; music and poetry; music and society

Abstract

This article presents an overview of research on Georgy Sviridov’s 1977 vocal cycle Russia Cast Adrift undertaken during the writing of my doctoral thesis (awarded by the University of Manchester in July 2018). The discussion focuses on Sviridov’s response to bucolic and religious themes in Esenin’s poetry. Ultimately it is suggested that Sviridov’s engagement with such themes allows the work to be understood as a musical analogue to developments in literature, visual art, and film that were representative of a burgeoning Russian nationalist movement in the post-Stalinist era. This allows for a more nuanced characterisation of Sviridov and his music than is commonly acknowledged in English-language musicology.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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