Those who built ‘socialism with jazz face’ : Soviet jazz fandom in 1960s and Latvian jazz fan Leonid Nidbalsky

Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music
2022
lehtiartikkeli
Reimann, H. (2022). Those who built ‘socialism with jazz face’: Soviet jazz fandom in 1960s and Latvian jazz fan Leonid Nidbalsky. Mūzikas akadēmijas raksti, XX.

Tiivistelmä

This article uncovers the underlying social and cultural basis for the appearance of Soviet jazz fandom in the late 1950s. It shows how this phenomenon grew out of the šestidesâtniki (shestidesyatniki) movement, who the individuals were that were a part of it and uncovers the ideological platform underlying their activism. The second part introduces the role of American jazz broadcaster Willis Conover as a mediator between Soviet jazz fans and how jazz obtained the status of celebrity worshipped by thousands of devotees. Finally, Latvian jazz fan Leonid Nidbalsky is selected to elucidate the life in jazz of a person with great prominence in the developing jazz culture in the country.

ISBN

Aihealue

OKM-julkaisutyyppi

A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

Emojulkaisu

Mūzikas kultūra Latvijā 20. gadsimta 20.-30. gados un otrajā pusē: mazpētītie procesi, jautājumi, problēmas

Lehti

Mūzikas akadēmijas raksti|XX

Julkaisusarja

ISSN

2243-5719

DOI