Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi

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Professor or Dr. Maria Sonevytsky (Assistant Professor of Music, Bard College, NY, USA) Fabian Holt

Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi

Professor or Dr. Maria Sonevytsky (Assistant Professor of Music, Bard College, NY, USA), Fabian Holt

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Bloomsbury Academic USA
10 August 2023

Rock & Pop music; World music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Series: 33 1/3 Europe

Rock ‘n’ roll may not have toppled the USSR, but it definitely rumbled through its foundations. Unlike the often-saccharine pop music sanctioned by the Soviet state, Ukrainian punk musicians of the 1980s Kyiv underground adapted ideologies of rock to roast the absurdities of late Soviet life, to articulate new ways of being Ukrainian, and to celebrate the cathartic pleasures of collective gatherings organized around musical performances.

This book tells the story of Tantsi (Dances) a 1989 semi-official cassette release by the now-legendary Ukrainian punk band Vopli Vidopliassova, known to fans simply as VV (pronounced “Ve-Ve”). Their disruptive musical sounds, ironic lyrics, use of language, and propulsive performances toyed with the distinctions between official and unofficial Soviet culture. VV's Tantsi exemplifies how Soviet musical cultures existed within an ecosystem of contradictions as entrenched state infrastructures collided with emergent youth subcultures on the quicksand of late Soviet life. Today, Tantsi continues to invite us to dance while we laugh (or cry) at the absurdities of everyday life.

By: Professor or Dr. Maria Sonevytsky (Assistant Professor of Music Bard College NY USA)
Edited by: Fabian Holt
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781501363122
ISBN 10: 1501363123
Series: 33 1/3 Europe
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 10 August 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Note on Translation and Transliteration Timeline: 1985-1989 1. Intro: There Will Be Dances 2. Tusovka: Ad Hoc Infrastructures and the Kyiv Rock Scene 3. Total Stiob: Irony vs. Hypocrisy 4. Sex, Drugs, and Komsomol 5. Conclusion: Tantsi Forever Bibliography Index

Maria Sonevytsky is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Music at Bard College, USA. She is the author of Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine (2019), winner of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society, and is currently writing a book about Soviet Ukrainian children’s music.