Vladimir Vysotskij e le sue canzoni: note sulla ricezione italiana
From the beginning of the sixties to the end of the seventies, the singer-songwriter, poet and actor Vladimir Vysotsky (1938-1980) embodied an archetypical Soviet Russian dissident: while ostracized by the Brezhnev regime, he was very popular and beloved by Russian people, to whom he was known for h...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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International Association for the Study of Popular Music
2014-01-01
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| Series: | IASPM Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/view/624/pdf_9 |
| Summary: | From the beginning of the sixties to the end of the seventies, the singer-songwriter, poet and actor Vladimir Vysotsky (1938-1980) embodied an archetypical Soviet Russian dissident: while ostracized by the Brezhnev regime, he was very popular and beloved by Russian people, to whom he was known for his prolific concert activity and career as a stage and film actor. After the fall of the USSR, his life and work were the subject of a growing body of studies, with publications of texts and new multimedia offerings from both the Russian community (as an emblematic example, the V.S. Vysotsky State Cultural Centre and Museum, founded in Moscow during the early ‘90s) and at the international level. This article will investigate Vysotsky’s poetics in relation to Soviet society of his time, within an Italian context. In doing so, it will review the reception of Vysotsky’s work in Italian academic, journalistic and musical sources, and explore the bibliography, discography and audio and video offerings, such as a television documentary by Demetrio Volcic (1979-1982), utilizing historical-critical evidence to understand Vysotsky’s work in relation to an Italian frame of reception. |
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| ISSN: | 2079-3871 2079-3871 |