Journal article
Performing Glinka’s opera 'A Life for the Tsar' on the village stage
- Abstract:
- Between 1896 and 1917, the Perm΄ “Guardianship of Popular Sobriety”—an organization funded by the Ministry of Finance and supervised by the provincial governor—ran a popular choir program that engendered enthusiastic artistic collaboration between peasants, workers, the regional intelligentsia, and state officials. One major achievement of participants were amateur performances of Glinka's monarchical opera A Life for the Tsar throughout Perm΄ province. This article focuses on the musical activities of one peasant women, E.N. Shniukova, and argues that provincial and otherwise unknown musicians, many of whom were women, played a key role in spreading cultural values and shaping musical life in the early twentieth century. These regional musicians rejected the peripheral position that their location and social position otherwise suggested and proudly viewed their villages as centers of artistic creativity.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Access Document
- Files:
-
-
(Preview, Accepted manuscript, 1.4MB, Terms of use)
-
- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/slr.2021.7
Authors
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Slavic Review More from this journal
- Volume:
- 79
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 755 - 777
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-11-25
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
2325-7784
- ISSN:
-
0037-6779
- Language:
-
English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
1157530
- Local pid:
-
pubs:1157530
- Deposit date:
-
2021-01-20
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Mannherz.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2021.7
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record