Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-307), filmography (p. 307-309), discography (p. 310-315) and index.
Contents:
The Soviet popular song after Stalin -- Lyric or civic: personality and theatricality -- Why sing estrada? Philosophical contexts of the genre -- Edita Pekha: gentle voice of the thaw -- Iosif Kobzon and the civic response -- Irina Ponarovskaia and Sofiia Rotaru : in and out of Russia -- Lev Leshchenko and Valerii Leont'ev: two nightingales -- Alla Pugacheva: redefinine estrada -- Alla Pugacheva: redefining personality.
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