The Role of Media on Self-awareness of Russian Music

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16H06582
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Art at large
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: Kamitake Kieko 北海道大学, スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター, 非常勤研究員 (70786087)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 音楽史 / 表象文化論 / ロシア / オペラ / 古儀式派

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focused on the roles of the mass media in the process of self-awareness of Russian music from the end of the 19th century, analyzing the then reports on the actual situation of Russian opera culture and the aesthetic discourse on the substance of Russian music, which were placed in different Russian journals and newspaper.
It turned out that there existed close connections among old believers' private opera theaters, opera theaters of the provinces and those of surrounding areas of Russia in the context of the patronage of arts by old believers from the end of the 19th century. The mass media of Russian music circle regarded this phenomenon as nationalism of Russian music.

Free Research Field

人文学