| Estrada?!: Grand Narratives and the Philosophy of the Russian Popular Song since Perestroika Subjects: Popular music -- Soviet Union -- 1981–1990 -- History and criticism; Popular music -- Russia (Federation) -- 1991–2000 -- History and criticism; A penetrating examination of contemporary Russian culture through its most popular music. MacFadyen David : David MacFadyen is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. He has written extensively on Soviet popular culture and is the author of The Sad Comedy of Èl'dar Riazanov and several books on Joseph Brodsky. |