1st Edition
Independent Music in Russia Escapism, Patriotism and Protest (2008-2022)
Introduction
Chapter One – The history, structures and politics of nezavisimaia muzyka
Chapter Two – “We also can. We’re not worse”: the Anglophone Wave (2008–2012)
Chapter Three – “I live in Russia and I’m not scared”: Russia’s conservative turn, the New Russian Wave and metamodernism (2012–2018)
Chapter Four – Patrioprotest: The ambiguous resistance of nezavisimaia muzyka (2018–2022)
Chapter Five – From the margins and back? The transnational spread of nezavisimaia muzyka
Conclusions
Biography
Marco Biasioli is a Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. His interests include Soviet, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian popular music, culture-power interactions, Russian literature and nationhood.
"This is a rich and timely contribution to the study of Russian culture, media, and politics. Marco Biasioli provides a nuanced and empirically grounded exploration of Russian independent music (nezavisimaia muzyka) as a complex cultural phenomenon… By interrogating the shifting boundaries of independence and cultural identity and foregrounding 'ambiguous resistance,' Independent Music in Russia makes a valuable contribution to area and cultural studies, music research and sociology, challenging political studies and IR-dominant interpretations framed around a binary state-opposition model."
Galina Miazhevich, Cardiff University, The Russian Review
