Sverdlovsk-Yekaterinburg Musical and Poetic School

Abstract

Song lyrics have become an integral part of Russian artistic literature. Most of them are works of philologists. In the West, the Nobel prize in literature awarded to Bob Dylan stimulated interest in song lyrics. The author identifies three paradigms in the development of Russian poetic songs: the bard song, Soviet rock, and that of the Third song (or Song post-modernism). Sverdlovsk-Yekaterinburg poetic songs are considered through the prism of the first and second paradigms as the third one is being formed at present. The author maintains that Sverdlovsk-Yekaterinburg is one of the country’s largest centres of poetic songs. “Bards” from Sverdlovsk (especially A. Dolsky) have made a significant contribution to the development of the Russian bard song. A considerable number of Sverdlovsk bards took part in the First all-Union Festival of (Bard) Songs. The authors of the Sverdlovsk rock club have gained a wide popularity with the development of rock poetry. The Nautilus Pompilius group and their poetic leader Ilya Kormiltsev have won immense popularity with researchers. Besides, researchers have been studying lyrics by Chaif, Agatha Christie, and other groups such as Vodopad imeni Vakhtanga Kikabidze, Nastya, Urfin Dzhyus, Aprelskiy Marsh, Otrazheniye. The author aims to generalise the existing research material concerning Sverdlovsk-Yekaterinburg song lyrics and draw a typology of its song schools, bands, and poets. This is the first attempt to consider the singing poets of Sverdlovsk-Yekaterinburg as a separate regional poetic school.

Keywords

• Свердловск
• Екатеринбург
• песенная поэзия
• авторская песня
• советский рок
• свердловский рок-клуб
• Третья песенность.