{"product_id":"performing-tsarist-russia-in-new-york-music-migrs-and-the-american-imagination-9780253041180","title":"Performing Tsarist Russia in New York: Music, Émigrés, and the American Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eOffering a rare look at the musical life of Russia Abroad as it unfolded in New York City, Natalie K. Zelensky examines the popular music culture of the post-Bolshevik Russian emigration and the impact made by this group on American culture and politics. \u003ci\u003ePerforming Tsarist Russia in New York \u003c\/i\u003ebegins with a rich account of the musical evenings that took place in the Russian émigré enclave of Harlem in the 1920s and weaves through the world of Manhattan's Russian restaurants, Tin Pan Alley industry, Broadway productions, 1939 World's Fair, Soviet music distributors, postwar Russian parish musical life, and Cold War radio programming to close with today's Russian ball scene, exploring how the idea of Russia Abroad has taken shape through various spheres of music production in New York over the course of a century. Engaging in an analysis of musical styles, performance practice, sheet music cover art, the discourses surrounding this music, and the sonic, somatic, and social realms of dance, Zelensky demonstrates the central role played by music in shaping and maintaining the Russian émigré diaspora over multiple generations as well as the fundamental paradox underlying this process: that music's sustaining power in this case rests on its proclivity to foster collective narratives of an idealized prerevolutionary Russia while often evolving stylistically to remain relevant to its makers, listeners, and dancers. By combining archival research with fieldwork and interviews with Russian émigrés of various generations and emigration waves, \u003ci\u003ePerforming Tsarist Russia in New York\u003c\/i\u003e presents a close historical and ethnographic examination of music's potential as an aesthetic, discursive, and social space through which diasporans can engage with an idea of a mythologized homeland, and, in turn, the vital role played by music in the organization, development, and reception of Russia Abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Natalie K. Zelensky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253041180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatalie K. Zelensky is Assistant Professor of Music at Colby College. Her work on music of the Russian diaspora has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEthnomusicology Forum\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRussia Abroad: Music and Orthodoxy\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2013, she was a NEH fellow for America's Russian-Speaking Immigrants and Refugees: 20th-Century Migration and Memory at Columbia University's Harriman Institute, the research and academic exchange that played an important part in preparing \u003ci\u003ePerforming Tsarist Russia in New York\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40422165938291,"sku":"9.78025E+12","price":134.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e27bab9e-79fb-4733-9732-f4c279a6e007.jpg?v=1662471733","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/performing-tsarist-russia-in-new-york-music-migrs-and-the-american-imagination-9780253041180","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}