About new spiritual poems in modern mass music
Abstract
Observing the double and even triple circulation of many genres functioning in modern music – folklore, mass, academic (as happens, for example, with song), the article explores the genre of spiritual verse, which, historically, has realized the function of translating Christian ideas into accessible folk language. The author relies on quite numerous examples in the domestic mass culture (mainly related to the phenomenon of so-called Christian rock), in which songs of religious, spiritual and ethical content, although not called brass verses, but – in a reduced form – comply with many of the “laws” of the genre. In the works of Zh. Bichevskaya, Pelageya, V. Butusov, K. Kinchev, we find compositions in which aspiration to themes of the spiritual plane, non-worldly affairs of human existence, and a characteristic “dictionary” of motives can be traced. They are dominated by the features of epic or lyric poetry and reflect the complex, mutually influencing nature of church and secular culture.
About the Author
Y. V. Antipova
M.I. Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatoire
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yuliya V. Antipova, Cand. Sc. (Art Criticism), Associate Professor at the Music History Department
630099, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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