Anya EzhevskayaAssistant professor at Dallas International University

Church presentation on Russian guitar poetry

26 Dec 2020 · 2 min

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In this brief presentation, the speaker introduces the phenomenon of Russian folk and bardic songs being performed in the United States. He explains that people—both first‑generation immigrants and their children—gather in state parks around campfires to sing these songs, creating a unique cultural revival that traces its roots back to the Soviet bard tradition. The talk sets up a discussion of how this tradition has been reborn and sustained far from its original homeland.

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Я и gray и blue, а чем у нас на blue. Blue. How often do you hear Russian folk songs in America? Is that even a thing? Does it exist? Well, it turns out that it does. People gather somewhere in state parks around campfires, coming from all over an entire region of the United States to sing Russian songs together. It's kind of a unique phenomenon if you think about it. And it all comes from Russia, it comes from the Soviet Union. That's where it takes its roots, but it has been reborn and kind of recreated itself here in America. So that's what I'd like to talk to you about today. What is this This bardic tradition that comes from faraway places, but that still lives among the people, even if they are first or second generation Americans.