TY - BOOK AU - MacFadyen,David TI - Songs for Fat People: Affect, Emotion, and Celebrity in the Russian Popular Song, 1900-1955 SN - 9780773570627 AV - ML3497 .M333 2002 U1 - 782.42164/0947/0904 PY - 2002/// CY - Montreal PB - McGill-Queen's University Press KW - Popular music-Soviet Union-History and criticism KW - Popular music-Social aspects-Soviet Union KW - Singers-Soviet Union-Biography KW - Musique populaire-URSS-Histoire et critique KW - Musique populaire-Aspect social-URSS KW - Chanteurs-URSS-Biographies KW - Musique populaire-Russie-20e siecle-Histoire et critique KW - Electronic books N2 - During this period estrada - which includes comedy, literary readings, and circus arts as well as popular song - saw the birth of tangos, foxtrots, waltzes, and big bands. MacFadyen shows how a nomadic art form survived the pressures of business before the 1917 Revolution and those of politics afterwards UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3330508 ER -