Opposition From Cultural Dissidents: Music Flashcards
How did musicians produce cultural dissidents
-made illegal recordings known as magnitizdat - on reel-to-reel tape recorders
How did these spread
-tapes passed between friends - allowing forbidden musical styles + song lyrics to spread quickly in the ‘underground’
-jazz, ‘boogie-woogie’, rock n roll, soul music + western pop all disseminated this way
What is an example of a musician associating with the dissident movement
-Yuliy Kim a typical musician who reacted to political events in his song writing - associated himself with the dissident movement in Moscow
-wrote a sing cycle called ‘Moscow kitchens’ which told how subversive thought was passed around in free discussions in the capital’s kitchens
What was Soviet non-conformist art
-it broke free from the shackles of Soviet realism bringing dissident painters
When did the limitations to Khrushchev’s cultural thaw become apparent
-in 1962 when Khrushchev attended Manezh art exhibition where several nonconformist artists were exhibiting
-K engaged in arg about function of art in society but this only encouraged dissident painters to pursue art in private challenging official artistic reality
What are examples of major nonconformist artists
-Oleg Vassiliev + Ilya Kabakov
-both worked officially as children’s book illustrators part time allowing time pursue ‘underground art’
Who was Erik Bulatov
-a conceptual artists who founded the ‘Sretensky Boulevard Group’ - named after where they met to discuss + display work
-included Vassiliev + Kabakov + the exhibitors of the Manezh art exhibition where
How did the artists suffer differently to the writers
-unlike the writers the artists were able to escape persecution
-most managed some ‘legal’ work + it seemed the authorities of the period found their activities less potentially damaging to the regime
Which dissidents defected
-a few expressed opposition to regime by seizing opportunity provided by K’s open relationship with the west to defect
-e.g. basket dancer Nureyev defected to Paris 1961 when on overseas tour - famously known for being a lead dancer with Kirov Ballet
