War of Songs

This multi-authored monograph consists of the sections: "Pop Rock, Ethno-Chaos, Battle Drums, and a Requiem: The Sounds of the Ukrainian Revolution", "The Euromaidan's Aftermath and the Genre of Answer Song: A Musical Dialogue Between the Antagonists?", "Exposing the Fault Lines beneath the Kremlin's Restorative Geopolitics: Russian and Ukrainian Parodies of the Russian National Anthem", "'Lasha Tumbai', or 'Russia, Goodbye'? The Eurovision Song Contest as a Post-Soviet Geopolitical Battleground", and "(Post-)Soviet Rock Soundtracks the Donbas Conflict".

Arve Hansen is a doctoral student of Russian at the UiT - the Arctic University of Norway. Dr. Andrei Rogatchevski is Professor of Russian Literature and Culture at the UiT - the Arctic University of Norway. Dr. Yngvar Steinholt is Associate Professor of Russian at the UiT - the Arctic University of Norway. Dr. DavidEmil Wickström is Professor of Popular Music History at the Popakademie BadenWürttemberg in Mannheim, Germany. The author of the foreword: Artemy Troitsky is a prominent music critic and author of Back in the USSR: The True Story of Rock in Russia (1987), Tusovka: Who's Who in the New Soviet Rock Culture (1990), and Subkultura: Stories of Youth and Resistance in Russia, 1815-2017 (2017).