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The criminal song is considered as a phenomenon of urban folklore functionally linked to the criminal community as an archaic subculture. The author characterises the plot structure of the criminal song: the system-building characters, their plot function, and typical ...

The author analyses the works of singer songwriters, i. e. lyrics of bard songs and rock poetry, from the point of view of their plot and their place in the typology of texts. The author identifies a discrepancy between the principles of building the plot of songs and the methods of creating the poetic model of the world in ...

In comparison with the Blackbird and the Fieldfare having specialised urban populations in Kaliningrad, the Song thrush does not show signs of urbanisation. This article analyses the causes of this phenomenon and examines the results of urbanisation of the closely related species and fundamental differences between them 1. Фридман В. С., Ерёмкин ...

This article proves that the song “When we met, bird cherry tree was in bloom”, which is traditionally perceived as a piece of urban folklore, is an authored work. 1.  Блатная лира: сб. тюремных и лагерных песен / сост. Я. Вайскопф....

The author considers a lengthy program of research (that will be continued in a series of articles) on the artistic geography (geopoetics) of Alexander Galich, one of the brightest representatives of the author’s (bard’s) song of the 1960s—1970s. The construction of Galich poetic world actualizes the opposition of the center / periphery, while Moscow (or another capital replacing it) acts as the frequency expression of the structural center, and the periphery can be ...

Alexander Galich, a prominent singer-songwriter, built a gallery of socio-psychological types, central to which was the image of the ordinary Soviet per­son. This article focuses on the motif of death/immortality as a plot component describing the fate of a small person in Galich’s poetry. The place of the ordi­nary person in Galich’s creative ‘characterology’ is identified. The ground­work for a classification of the ordinary person types is laid and key motifs of plots introducing the types are...

... studying the romance. Russian romance is presented as a social-cognitive construct with a particular set of historically and culturally conditioned cognitive indicators. A comparative analysis of the texts of the Russian romance and Russian lyrical songs re­vealed the national characteristics of the lyric song, as well as the cognitive characteristics peculiar to the romance: focus on feelings, emotions, portrait creation, descriptiveness, etc. 1. Гервер Л. Л. Музыка и музыкальная ...

Ya. Dyagileva’s song “For a Rainy Day” is characterised as an aesthetic manifestation expressed in the framework of polemics with the pre-texts of A. Bashlachev, B. Grebenschikov, and A. Makarevich. 1. Башлачев А. Н. Стихи. СПб., 1997. 2. Дело ...

“The Ballad about Eternal Flame” (1968) was a remake of an earlier “Song about Hard Currency” (1966). Both songs are connected with Poland, though their titles do not immediately imply it. This article analyses the sources of the 'Polish' theme in the songs. 1.  Галич А.   А . Облака плывут, ...

V. Vysotsky’s poetry is typologically close to the principles of the “rough style” Soviet painting of the 1960s. The author outlines the promising areas of comparative analysis and addresses the issue of typological similarities between different texts within the field of a common cultural and historical situation of the Khrushchev era. 1. Бобриков А. Суровый стиль: мобилизация и культурная революция // Художественный журнал. 2003. № 51/52 : [сайт]. URL: http://xz.gif.ru/numbers/51-52/surovo (дата...

... /lyrics 5.  Wolf T . Lacrimosa // Там же . URL: http://www.german­rock.ru/bands/lac­rimosa /lyrics 6.  Wesselsky A . Eisbrecher // Там же . URL: http://www.german­rock.ru/bands/ eis ­brecher/lyrics J. Pilute rock poetry, author’s song, female character, myth 98-101 10.5922/2223-2095-2009-8-19