История русского шансона

Description

"The History of Russian Chanson" is the first large-scale study of the most popular genre in Russia.

The author of the book is Maxim Kravchinsky - collector, writer, TV presenter, author of many publications and documentaries films dedicated to chanson.

The reader will have a fascinating journey through the labyrinths of street, convict, emigrant, Odessa, soldier, NEPman and hooligan songs...

With a crazy gang of buffoons we will walk through ancient Rus'; in the Cossack freemen of Stenka Razin we will sing about the exploits of the “dashing atamans”; Let's go to the tavern, where guitarist Vysotsky sings and plays for a quarter of vodka; let's party to "Gypsy Hungarian" by Apollon Grigoriev; let us cross ourselves on the Vladimirsky tract following the convicts singing “Alexandrovsky Central” to the sound of shackles; Let's enter the theater of miniatures, where Vertinsky tells his "ariettes"; Let's turn into a pub, where a Nepman coupletist is tap-dancing; Let's sigh to the melody of "Vanino Port" in a Gulag camp barracks; Let's dance to the foxtrot of the banned Pyotr Leshchenko; Let's turn on the first tape recorder and ask Vysotsky and Galich to sing with the guitar; we will get reels of Arkasha Severny from speculators at Odessa Privoz; let's sneak Rubashkin and Tokarev's records past Soviet customs; Let's secretly sneak into Rosenbaum's first "apartment buildings"; We’ll buy “Lesopoval” cassettes from the cooperative sound recording company; Let's turn on the radio "Chanson" and hear the voices of Trofim and Krug; Let's be surprised by the Forbes lists after reading about the successes of Elena Vaenga and Stas Mikhailov...