Abstract
ABSTRACTThrough the history of production and reception of Mark Donskoi and Vladimir Legoshin's Song of Happiness (1934), the article delves into the transformation of visual and musical representation of the non-Russian ‘Other’ in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The story of an uneducated Mari villager turned music-conservatoire graduate is analysed in the context of a re-evaluation of the musical heritage and folklore culture in the Soviet Union. By considering different versions of the script and the final film, the article recovers a complex fabric of cultural and national politics looking for blueprints to visualize Soviet culture as ‘national in form, socialist in content’.
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