Of Mermaids and Rock Singers: Placing the Self and Constructing the Nation THrough Belarusan Contemporary Music
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Notes to Accompanying CD -- The Transliteration of the Belarusan Language -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. "Žyvie Bielaraś!": Nationalism, Critiques, and Cultural Responses -- Identity and Nation -- Explanations of Identity Construction: Eastern Europe in the Western Press -- 2. Terminology, Controversy, and the Interpretation of History -- Steps Towards Independence -- Terminology -- National Origins and the "Golden Era -- Aggressive Colonization -- Rebellion -- The Twentieth Century -- 3. "Stand in the doorway": Entrances and Exits in Urban Belarus -- Singular Visions and Multiple Directions in Urban Belarus -- The Public and the Private -- Expectations for Change in Belarus -- And what please, is a please . . . ? -- Popular Culture Without a Marketplace: Perfume, Lipstick, arid the Soaps -- Red Wine and Radiation: Chernobyl in Everyday Life -- Conclusion -- 4. From Legislation to the Renaissance: Belarusan Rock and Urban Folklore -- Generalities and Specifics of the Soviet Rock Scene -- The Pieśniary [Songsters]: From VIA to "Pieśniarok -- Defining the Elements of "Good?" Belarusan Rock -- 5. Of Mermaids and Rock Singers: Ethnography and Shifting Authority in Pałac's "Rusałki -- Culture Contact and the Expedition -- Young girls, our sisters . . . -- 6. Ulis: "America is Where I am -- Group Dynamics and the Practice Space -- Defining Ulis and Belarusan Rock -- 7. From Bard to Rock Star: Kasia Kamockaja -- Gender and Belarusan Rock -- Novaje Nieba's Kasia Kamockaja: from Bard to Rock Star -- Image, Belonging, and Association -- 8. National Republic of Mroja [Dream]: Quotation and the Kangaroo -- 9. Rock and Revolution: Performance and the Mediation of Rock -- Rock and Revolution: Performance and the Mediation of Rock.