Outlaw Music in Russia Albert Sergio Laguna In his characteristically powerful voice

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Outlaw Music in Russia Albert Sergio Laguna In his characteristically powerful voiceThe Russian shanson can be heard across the country today, on radio and television shows, at mass events like political rallies, and even at the Kremlin. Yet despite its ubiquity, it has attracted almost no scholarly attention. Anastasia Gordienko provides the first full history of the shanson, from its tenuous ties to early modern criminals' and robbers' folk songs, through its immediate generic predecessors in the Soviet Union, to its current