Music and the Making of the Cosmonaut Everyman

IF 0.2 1区 艺术学 0 MUSIC
G. Cornish
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Abstract

This article repositions the space race as a sonic phenomenon by analyzing music and sounds related to the Soviet space program. Early triumphs such as the orbit of Sputnik I in 1957, Yuri Gagarin’s groundbreaking orbital flight in 1961, and Valentina Tereshkova’s success as the first woman in space in 1963 epitomized the complexities of the cultural Cold War and the utopian underpinnings of the Thaw. Space, the ultimate nonaligned sphere, was a new world for the planting of real and ideological flags. At the same time, these successes were key to reimagining the ideals of Soviet citizenship and national identity in the post-Stalin era. Heating up at a moment of great change and consequence, the space race provides an inroad to examine how music, media, and sound helped spread these emerging values. Drawing on the popular press, radio broadcasts, and variety television performances, this article demonstrates how music was used to humanize the cosmonauts and promote a new personal ethics—one that prized approachability and humility alongside heroism and bravery. The divergent ways that composers and performers celebrated Gagarin and Tereshkova reveal a complex politics of gender during the Thaw. Gagarin, the conqueror, was revered in marches extolling his colonizing feats; Tereshkova, the homemaker, was celebrated with romances and tales of domesticity. By demonstrating the prevalence of new media and the power of participatory practices in the sonic space race, this article contributes to our understanding of the cultural Cold War as a lived and performed experience.
音乐与宇航员普通人的形成
本文通过分析与苏联太空计划有关的音乐和声音,将太空竞赛重新定位为一种声音现象。早期的成功,如1957年人造卫星1号的轨道,1961年尤里·加加林开创性的轨道飞行,以及1963年瓦伦蒂娜·捷列什科娃作为第一位太空女性的成功,都是文化冷战复杂性和“解冻”乌托邦基础的缩影。空间,这个终极不结盟的球体,是一个新的世界,可以插上真实的和意识形态的旗帜。与此同时,这些成功是重新构想后斯大林时代苏联公民身份和民族认同理想的关键。在一个重大变革和重大影响的时刻,太空竞赛愈演愈烈,为研究音乐、媒体和声音如何帮助传播这些新兴价值观提供了一个突破口。这篇文章通过大众媒体、电台广播和各种电视表演,展示了音乐是如何被用来使宇航员人性化的,并促进了一种新的个人道德——一种除了英雄主义和勇敢之外,还重视平易近人和谦逊的道德。作曲家和表演者庆祝加加林和捷列什科娃的不同方式揭示了解冻时期复杂的性别政治。征服者加加林在颂扬他的殖民功绩的游行中受到尊敬;捷列什科娃是一位家庭主妇,她以家庭生活的浪漫故事和故事而闻名。通过展示新媒体的流行和参与性实践在声音空间竞赛中的力量,本文有助于我们理解文化冷战作为一种生活和表演经验。
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期刊介绍: The widely-respected Journal of Musicology enters its third decade as one of few comprehensive peer-reviewed journals in the discipline, offering articles in every period, field and methodology of musicological scholarship. Its contributors range from senior scholars to new voices in the field. Its reach is international, with recent articles by authors from North America, Europe and Australia, and circulation to individuals and libraries throughout the world.
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