• Collection of illustrated Soviet popular-song sheet music from the New Economic Policy period (1921–1928).

Curatorial note:

These pieces of author-published popular-song sheet music are graphic and musical artifacts of the NEP years—a brief period of cultural liberality and free enterprise experiments in the Soviet era’s first decade. Their rich cover illustrations in a wide range of styles testify to this transitory freedom and a fascination with contemporary Western culture, and especially with American metropolitan urbanism in the roaring twenties. Many of the songs themselves are written in the musical styles and genres of America’s Jazz Age. “Eccentric dances” and foxtrots enthralled many in the cultural capitals of Moscow and Petrograd/Leningrad, but were often vehemently condemned by ideologues as the depraved entertainments of a hedonistic society in steep decline.

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Graphic Arts Collection. Purchased with funds from the Graphic Arts Collection and the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Collections.

Collections:
Title:
  • Mne nichego ne nado / tekst Pavla Germana; muzyka Zinovii︠a︡ Maĭman
Language:
  • Russian
Call number:
  • Q-000470
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 1 score (3 pages) ; 35 cm
Format:
  • Musical score
Type:
  • Scores
Description:
  • "Dmitrii︠u︡ Borisovichu Ugri︠u︡movu"--Page 2.
  • Artist's monogram "GB"--Cover.
  • Illustrated by Gary Berkovich. Artist's full name is taken from the book "Opredelitelʹ monogramm khudozhnikov-oformiteleiĭ proizvedeniiĭ pechati"; sostavil Alekseĭ Morozov.
Publisher:
  • Kiev : Izdanie avtora, [date of publication not identified].
Subject:
  • Popular music—Soviet Union—Scores
  • Sheet music
Title sort:
  • Mne nichego ne nado / tekst Pavla Germana; muzyka Zinovii︠a︡ Maĭman.
Spatial:
  • Russia. Russian Empire. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
Location:
  • GAX Q-000470
  • GAX Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Q-000470
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/9p290d60k
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Lyricist:
  • German, Pavel, 1894-1952
Composer:
  • Maĭman, Zinoviĭ
Creator:
  • Maĭman, Zinoviĭ
Illustrator:
  • Berkovich, Gary, 1935-
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