Talk:Music of the Soviet Union

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Should this article not cover the other genres, less political?
What about the jazz, Beatles-like collectives, folk ensembles, author songs, etc, of the Soviet epoch?
What about the Soviet symphony?
What about the folklore of Soviet ethnic groups? Soviet music was much richer than the songs listed in this article. Gantuya eng 04:32, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Done. Though just a sceleton for now, it may be a beginning for a large article on soviet music.

VIA period perhaps deserves a separate article, as it was remarkably purely "soviet" sound, not ripped from western genres. Garret Beaumain (talk) 23:24, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"With time, a wave of younger Soviet composers, including Georgy Sviridov, Tikhon Khrennikov, Alfred Schnittke managed to break through, partially thanks to the Soviet education system." Amy Nelson. Music for the Revolution. Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia. Penn State University Press, 2004. 346 pages

The quote sounds like a nonsense, especially "managed to break through" due to Soviet education system, they were just a next generation. Also Tikhon Khrennikov was more a party functionary, than a serious classical composer. Not the Soviet education system, but rather the Soviet system (the Central Committee of the Communist Party) had promoted Tikhon Khrennikov and alike. Semimartingale (talk) 00:33, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is untrue.Tikhon Khrennikov was by all accounts a "serious classical composer", elevated to his position of power in part because of his standing

as a composer. He was a composer first and a functionary second. AlphabetAlabaster (talk) 15:54, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of the content in this article is not really noteworthy, like rock and jazz. I will work on describing the popular music of the 1930s such as the revolutionary marches and war-time marches, as well as performers as Bernes, Kobzon, Leshenko, Pugacheva, Magomaev etc. Stuff like this was really popular in my parents' generation, as well as war-time songs like this. SadSwanSong (talk) 04:01, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: - User banned as being a Sock account. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 05:56, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]