Eurodisco in Russia: From Mainstream into Underground
https://doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2017-14-4-431-437
Abstract
The musical style of Eurodisco, popular in the 1980s in Western Europe, gained, under the influence of many factors, some original features in the Soviet Union in the second half of that decade, which allowed to consider it as a specific phenomenon of the culture of the late USSR. Being a part of mass culture and a mainstream of the Soviet and Russian pop music at the cusp of the 1980s—1990s, having faced a lack of interest from listeners in the 1990s, this phenomenon, which received the name of “Soviet” or “Cooperative” disco, has been experiencing a new surge in popularity since the second half of the 2000s, though in the countercultural environment now. The article deals with the process of Eurodisco’s evolution in the Soviet and Post-Soviet space in the period from the middle of the 1980s to the middle of the 2010s. It has switched from a commercial pop music and mainstream into an indie-culture and underground. The article takes steps to help understand the process of transformation of the elements of mass culture into those of elite culture.
About the Author
Vladimir A. Krasnoshchyokov
Volga Region State University of Service
Russian Federation
4, Gagarina Str., Togliatti, 445017
Russian Federation
4, Gagarina Str., Togliatti, 445017
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Krasnoshchyokov V.A. Eurodisco in Russia: From Mainstream into Underground. Observatory of Culture. 2017;14(4):431-437. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2017-14-4-431-437
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