Michael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance of the genre in the turbulent, postcommunist society. Russians, he ex

Urban and Evdokimov chronicle the rise of a new cultural idiom in Russia, based on blues music. "Russian blues" is tainted neither by the Soviet past nor with t

Urban and Evdokimov chronicle the rise of a new cultural idiom in Russia, based on blues music. "Russian blues" is tainted neither by the Soviet past nor with t

Straddling Europe and Asia, the Russian Federation is the largest country in the world and home to a panoply of religious and ethnic groups from the Muslim Tata

This revised and updated definitive blues bibliography now includes 6,000-7,000 entries to cover the last decade’s writings and new figures to have emerged on