Soviet War Songs in the Context of Russian Culture

"This volume provides valuable insight into a topic which is less known for the contemporary Western public, the Soviet war songs. A strength of the volume derives precisely from the topic discussed, as the book fills a significant gap regarding English-language studies on Russian musical culture. A second strong point consists of the bibliography used by the author, which is widely in Russian language. The volume therefore provides the readers with a large amount of scientific and documentary information which would have been difficult to access otherwise. [...] In fact, the general message of the entire work can be interpreted as an appeal for an approach that is personalized and centered on moral values, either in the specific act of teaching, or in the interpretation and transmission of cultural information. The domains to which this work contributes are, therefore, varied, ranging from musicology, educational sciences, art teaching or Russian language teaching to more general areas such as cultural studies, cultural history, European modern history or the modern history of Eastern Europe."