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Nikolay POLIAKOV

Seeking for God: Russian Rock Music and Religion

Romanian Journal of Journalism and Communication, issue 2-3 (55), year XII (XVI), 2017

section: Media, religion and popular culture

pages: 5-15

abstract

The paper treats the correspondence of Russian rock music and the peculiarities of religiosity in the late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia. Russian rock music history is divided into several periods: the earliest period when rock music just came to the Soviet Union and mostly copied Western prototypes; the music of the perestroika period where religious motives were among the central and reflected spiritual and religious search typical for the country of that time; and Post-Soviet rock music which showed more and more interest in Orthodoxy often mixing it with identity search and nationalism. (CORRECTED VERSION)

keywords

Music and religion, Russian rock music, spiritual supermarket

abstract (second language):

Este escrito trata de la correspondencia entre la música rock rusa y las peculiaridades de la religiosidad en la Rusia Soviética y Postsoviética. La historia de la música rock rusa se divide en varios períodos: el período inicial, cuando la música rock acababa de llegar a la Unión Soviética y solía imitar los prototipos occidentales; la música del período de la perestroika, cuando los motivos religiosos eran una cuestión central y reflejaban la búsqueda espiritual y religiosa, muy típica del país de entonces; y la música rock postsoviética que se mostraba cada vez más interesada en la ortodoxia, amalgamándolo, en muchas ocasiones, con la búsqueda de la identidad y con el nacionalismo.

keywords (second language):

Música, religión, música rock rusa, supermercado espiritual,

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