The rise of author-performed song in Tuva (1921–1944)
Keywords:
People’s Republic of Tuva (PRT); folk song; author-performed song; composers of Tuva; musical culture; professional culture; history of musicAbstract
This is a study of author-performed song in Tuva, the history of which begins when the People’s Republic of Tuva was declared in 1921. This crucial moment in the history of the region, which bore a strong influence of the October Revolution in Russia and of the following years of social change, had a profound impact on songwriting in the 1920s.
The songs expressed gratitude to the October Revolution, Lenin and the Russian people for helping Tuvans get rid of the socially oppressive system (“The Glorious International”, “Freedom from Torment”, “The Great River”, “The Emergency Session of the Khural”, “No More Oppression”, etc.). New songs glorified such iconic features of new life as the first schools, the birth of national literature and the new system of writing, the change in attitude to women, the rise of the new generation of authors, the construction of a new automobile road, etc. In the 1930s further socioeconomic transformation gave rise to songs like “I Am a Kolkhoz Member”; “The Tractor Driver”, “The Propagandist”, “The Beautiful Soviet Land”, etc.
By the end of the 1930s Tuva got its first amateur composers and author-performed songs. The arrival of theater, dance and music professionals from the USSR at the beginning of the 1940s at the bequest of PRT’s government led to a sea change in professionalization of Tuvan performing arts. In 1951 A. Chyrgal-ool became the first Tuvan student to join a conservatoire in Kazan which he graduated from in 1957. His works composed in 1950s marked a new stage in the rise of professional music in the region.
Thus Tuvan song art featured almost the same trends and developments as most other ethnic groups in the Soviet Union.
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Valentina Yu. Suzukey, Tuvan Institute for the Humanities and Applied Socioeconomic Studies
Doctor of Culturology, Chief Research Fellow, Sector of Culture, Tuva Institute for Humanities and Applied Socioeconomic Studies.
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