DFG project looks into Russian-language pop music between
1953 and 1985
Pop music commonly refers to a light, unsophisticated music
genre. The songs are inoffensive, simple, with trivial lyrics. The
revolutionary potential of pop music has been demonstrated by Dr Ingo
Grabowsky, Slavic studies scholar at the RUB, in his project “Ėstrada! Popular
music and society in the Soviet Union between 1953 and 1985” that was sponsored
by the German Research Foundation (DFG) between 2010 and 2013.