Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi by Maria Sonevytsky communism contemporary art and pedagogy

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Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022

Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi by Maria Sonevytsky communism contemporary art and pedagogyRock 'n' roll may not have toppled the USSR, but it definitely rumbled through its foundations. Unlike the often saccharine pop music sanctioned by the Soviet state, Ukrainian punk musicians of the 1980s Kyiv underground adapted ideologies of rock to roast the absurdities of late Soviet life, to articulate new ways of being Ukrainian, and to celebrate the cathartic pleasures of collective gatherings organized around musical performances. This book