A comparative analysis of the sociocultural origins of rock music in the USSR and the USA
https://doi.org/10.31660/1993-1824-2023-2-99-111
Abstract
The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the sociocultural foundations of the emergence of rock music in the USA and the USSR. The aim of the study is to identify the genesis of rock music and to analyze its characteristics in the United States and the Soviet Union. The authors have shown that a significant factor influencing the birth of rock music in the United States was the post-war socio-economic conditions: the absence of destruction in the country's infrastructure, the concentration in the United States of scientists who had fled fascism in Europe, the orientation of the country's budget towards the socio-economic sector, the demographic explosion, the emergence of leisure time. The Soviet Union, which had suffered catastrophic human losses and destruction of industry because of the war, focused the budget on raising the national economy and strengthening the military-industrial complex, so the appearance of rock music in the USSR became possible only after a full economic recovery. Despite the initial copying and imitation of American rock music by Soviet performers, the authors of the article found differences both in the musical material (form - content) and in the ideological (consumerism - sacrifice) and teleological (commodity - mission) aspects of rock music. The results of the study may be useful for philosophers, cultural scientists, as well as teachers of secondary and higher educational institutions to demonstrate the identity of the Russian cultural path using the example of rock music.
About the Authors
A. V. Shlyakov
Industrial University of Tyumen
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexey V. Shlyakov, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Department of Humanities and Technologies
Tyumen
L. V. Rebysheva
Industrial University of Tyumen
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Lidia V. Rebysheva, Candidate of Sociology, Associate Professor at the Department of Marketing and Government Administration
Tyumen
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Shlyakov A.V., Rebysheva L.V. A comparative analysis of the sociocultural origins of rock music in the USSR and the USA. Proceedings of Higher Educational Institutions. Sociology. Economics. Politics. 2023;16(2):99-111. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31660/1993-1824-2023-2-99-111
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