 | Songs for Fat People: Affect, Emotion, and Celebrity in the Russian Popular Song, 1900-1955 Subjects: Popular music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism; Popular music -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union; Singers -- Soviet Union -- Biography; During this period estrada - which includes comedy, literary readings, and circus arts as well as popular song - saw the birth of tangos, foxtrots, waltzes, and big bands. MacFadyen shows how a nomadic art form survived the pressures of business before the 1917 Revolution and those of politics afterwards. 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. |
