Independent Music in Russia

This book explores Russian independent music - nezavisimaia muzyka - in a time of profound transformations in Russian society, looking especially at the mutual influence between music and the socio-political context in which it was created.

Marco Biasioli is a Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. His interests include Soviet, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian popular music, culture-power interactions, Russian literature and nationhood.

Introduction Chapter One - The history, structures and politics of nezavisimaia muzyka Chapter Two - "We also can. We're not worse": the Anglophone Wave (2008-2012) Chapter Three - "I live in Russia and I'm not scared": Russia's conservative turn, the New Russian Wave and metamodernism (2012-2018) Chapter Four - Patrioprotest: The ambiguous resistance of nezavisimaia muzyka (2018-2022) Chapter Five - From the margins and back? The transnational spread of nezavisimaia muzyka Conclusions