{"id":166,"date":"2016-09-29T20:03:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T00:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/?p=166"},"modified":"2016-09-29T20:03:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T00:03:59","slug":"who-are-we-where-did-we-come-from-where-are-we-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/russian-culture\/unit-7-romanticism-and-folk-culture\/who-are-we-where-did-we-come-from-where-are-we-going\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This seems like a period where the originality of Russian culture is distinct. Perhaps because the music we\u2019ve listened to in the past was religious music, all of it was highly influenced by European art, attempting more or less to imitate it. I don\u2019t have a lot of knowledge about European folk music in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, but many of these folk songs had a distinctly \u2018Russian\u2019 sound to me.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing was true of the Moiseyev dance. Instead of an attempt to imitate or borrow the classical forms of ballet and such from European culture, it was unique, different from any other sort of folk dancing I\u2019ve ever seen. The costumes look almost stereotypically Russian, unmistakable. This could be another example of the divide between the peasants and their folk culture, and the nobles trying to emulate other forms of artistic expression. But these recordings demonstrate that folk culture was eventually recognized as being valuable as well. Moreover, it\u2019s impossible to completely divide culture into \u2018folk culture\u2019 and \u2018high culture\u2019 with no overlap or influence in both directions (look at Gogol&#8217;s writing!). Just as pagan themes were adapted to fit the narratives of Christianity instead of destroyed completely, so \u2018folk culture\u2019 continued to have a strong influence on the Russian identity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seems like a period where the originality of Russian culture is distinct. Perhaps because the music we\u2019ve listened to in the past was religious music, all of it was highly influenced by European art, attempting more or less to imitate it. I don\u2019t have a lot of knowledge about European folk music in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[63,65],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unit-7-romanticism-and-folk-culture","tag-folk-culture","tag-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}