User:JohnDVandevert

General
Hello, I am John David Vandevert, a doctoral student at Uppsala University studying musicology. My research theme is 1990s rap in Russia and the aestheticization of the Russian identity and the concept of "Russianness." I have written previously on the censorship of rap in Russia with The Conversation and write regularly for the publication OperaWire. Normally, I edit articles and create articles related to my research, opera, and an eclectic array of musical topics and concepts. I had my first article published with the Journal of Popular Music (2024) and you are more than welcome to email me for a copy if you'd like!

My main goal is rennovate the Russian hip hop article in order to incorporate more of the history, as the concept of Hip Hop culture in Russia is more than the essential four elements but rather: Breaking, Mcing, Djing, skateboarding, breaking, and graffiti. I also am invested in translating articles from Russian to English based on topics connected to Hip Hop in Russia (e.g., Slovetsky, Husky, and Oxxxymiron). I am also invested in translating articles on Russian composers and musicians into English.

Previous Education
I gained my B.A. in Vocal Performance from Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Following my graduation, I pursued a M.A. in musicology from the University of Bristol, gaining a merit for my thesis, "A Contemporary Analysis of “Musical Russianness" as evidenced in Husky’s Album “Hoshkhonog” (2020)." I am now pursuing my doctoral degree from Uppsala University and will be completed in 2027 (2028 if I begin teaching). I plan to pursue a second Ph.D. and postdoctoral studies.

Links for Research

 * Rhyme scheme
 * An Introduction to Rhyme
 * https://www.loske.org/html/school/english/rhyme.pdf
 * http://trobar.org/prosody/prhy.php
 * https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/c90511d5-44e4-40e1-8605-eceaf5e5df9c/content

Favorite Pieces of Music
= Planned Articles =
 * Chernukha / Blackness
 * Living Vnye / Living 'outside time'
 * Khudozhestvennaya pravda (Художественная правда) / Artistic Truth
 * Nega / "mollitude," used to define tremendous pleasure and satisfied desire
 * Neo-Teleology: https://philpapers.org/rec/CUMN
 * Bytovia musika / everyday music
 * Dmitriy Lysenkov - Russian Actor
 * Red Carnation Festival-Concert of Russian Patriotic Songs [1]
 * Detroit Sound Conservancy
 * 59 Theses of the Third International
 * Samodeyatelnost [Do it yourself/Amateurism]
 * Poetry Day in Soviet Russia - Held in September of 1955 [late Stalinism]
 * Vasily Yakovlev - Soviet Musicologist and composer
 * Mikhail L. Yakovlev - 19th c. Russian Amateur composer and statesman for the Russian empire.
 * "Lamm's Group" - circle of Soviet, Moscow composers with more liberal ideas of composition [one participant was Vissarion Shebalin]
 * Circle of Stankevich - A group of 19th century Russian intellectuals, led by Nikolai Stankevich, responsible with creating the Russian intelligentsia

Planned Translation

 * Fyodor Nikolsky - 19th-century Milan-trained Russian opera singer
 * Tatyana Demyanova - 19th-century Russian gypsy singer
 * Klara Milich - 1916 opera by Alexander Kastalsky
 * Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement, pg. 135-140


 * Henri Peña-Ruiz - French Philosopher and Writer

Planned Editing

 * The Three Alexanders: Alexander Alyabyev, Aleksander Gurilyov, Alexander Egorovich Varlamov
 * Long song
 * Nina Koshetz


 * Boris de Schlözer
 * Samuel Andreyev
 * Aleksander Gurilyov
 * Alexey Verstovsky
 * Bulat Okudzhava
 * Vasily Andreyev
 * Vicente Lusitano
 * Alexander Alyabyev
 * Alexander Vladimirovich Varlamov
 * Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
 * Pyotr Bulakhov
 * Khrennikov's Seven
 * Svetlana Nesterova
 * Evlalia Pavlovna Kadmina
 * Fartsovka

Miscellaneous

 * 1) Uskoreniye
 * 2) ABC of Reading
 * 3) List of compositions by Giacomo Puccini
 * 4) Union of Soviet Composers
 * 5) Second Russian Avant-Garde
 * 6) Madeleine de Choiseul
 * 7) Yuri Tsiuman
 * 8) Yury Khovansky
 * 9) Free Music School
 * 10) Nikolai Mikhailovich Ladukhin
 * 11) Poet-Frontliners
 * 12) Democratic satire
 * 13) List of people banned from entering Ukraine
 * 14) Aytysh
 * 15) Lapshin, Ivan Ivanovich
 * 16) Hermann Kletke
 * 17) Forbidden Art — 2006
 * 18) Avant Festival
 * 19) 500 Days
 * 20) Lviv Organ Hall
 * 21) Kokorev's Manor House
 * 22) State Puppet Theatre of Fairy Tales
 * 23) Russian hip hop
 * 24) Patter
 * 25) Girjas case
 * 26) Davidsbündler
 * 27) Enkrateia
 * 28) Council of Liubech

Ballet

 * 1) Estancia (Ginastera)
 * 2) The Ring (ballet)

Orchestral

 * 1) Flute Concerto in B-minor (Fetis)
 * 2) Symphony No. 1 (Popov)
 * 3) Iron Foundry - Mosolov
 * 4) Pacific 231 (Honeggar)
 * 5) Oedipus at Colonus (Mendelssohn)
 * 6) La Danserye (Susato)

Songs

 * 1) Der Handschuh (Schumann)

Piano

 * 1) Triakontameron
 * 2) 12 Transcendental Études (Lyapunov)
 * 3) 14 Bagatelles
 * 4) Piano Concerto (Blitzen)
 * 5) Ten Easy Pieces
 * 6) Twenty-Four Preludes for Piano (Auerbach)

Opera Film

 * 1) Natalka Poltavka (film)
 * 2) Carmen (1984 film)
 * 3) The Glass Mountain (1949 film)
 * 4) Die Fledermaus (1972)

Opera

 * 1) L'isle déserte
 * 2) Ciro (opera)
 * 3) The Coachmen at the Relay Station
 * 4) L'anima del filosofo
 * 5) Dmitry Donskoy (opera)
 * 6) Florindo
 * 7) Ulysse (Rebel)
 * 8) Elena (Cavalli)
 * 9) Dafne
 * 10) Dafne in lauro
 * 11) Great Scott (opera)
 * 12) Nausicaa (opera)
 * 13) Kafka's Trial
 * 14) Salawat Yulayev (opera)
 * 15) Wieland der Schmied (Hitler)
 * 16) Animal Farm (opera)
 * 17) A Guest of Honor (opera)
 * 18) Klara Milich (opera)
 * 19) Sesostri re d'Egitto (opera)
 * 20) Shanewis
 * 21) Boccaccio (operetta)
 * 22) Lo schiavo
 * 23) Reuben, Reuben (opera)
 * 24) Tales of Malamud
 * 25) The Duenna (opera)
 * 26) Émilie (opera)
 * 27) Der Kaiser von Atlantis
 * 28) Denis & Katya
 * 29) The Cumnor Affair
 * 30) Iphigenia (opera)
 * 31) Anas el-Wugood
 * 32) Blenda (opera)
 * 33) The Reward (opera)
 * 34) L'Olimpiade (Galuppi)
 * 35) The Carriage (opera)
 * 36) One Night Stand (opera)
 * 37) Sonya's Story
 * 38) Margaret Garner (opera)
 * 39) Lilith (opera)
 * 40) A Marvelous Order
 * 41) Giunio Bruto
 * 42) Elektra (opera)
 * 43) Rescue opera
 * 44) Orphée et Euridice (Paer)
 * 45) Hafez (opera)

Composers

 * 1) List of compositions by Jean-Phillippe Rameau
 * 2) Georgi Conus
 * 3) Alexander Abramsky
 * 4) Joseph Iosifovich Genishta
 * 5) Lev Gurilyov
 * 6) Alexander Tcherepnin
 * 7) List of compositions by Alexander Tcherepin
 * 8) Joséphine Boulay
 * 9) Vadim Salmanov
 * 10) Dmitry Vasilievich Allemanov
 * 11) Brian Ferneyhough
 * 12) Adam Neely
 * 13) Edmond Clément
 * 14) Alexander Egorovich Varlamov
 * 15) Nikolai Titov
 * 16) Aleksey Zhilin
 * 17) Emma Roberto Steiner
 * 18) Mariya Zubova
 * 19) H. Maurice Jacquet
 * 20) Mikhail Vielgorsky
 * 21) Alexander Griboyedov
 * 22) Aleksander Gurilyov
 * 23) Livery Antonovich Sacchetti
 * 24) Elena Firsova
 * 25) Johann Gottfried Pratsch
 * 26) Dobri Hristov
 * 27) Alexander Radvilovich
 * 28) Huang Ruo
 * 29) Áine O'Dwyer
 * 30) William Mundy (composer)
 * 31) Aleksey Zhivotov
 * 32) Sergey Balasanian
 * 33) Edvard Mirzoyan
 * 34) Ledenev, Roman Semenovich
 * 35) Vilinsky, Vasily Mikhailovich
 * 36) Vladimir Kashperov
 * 37) Valentin Vikhorev
 * 38) Reinhard Gebhardt (archived on Archive.org)
 * 39) Ferdinando Paer

Russian Hip-Hop

 * 1) Hookah rap
 * 2) Jeeep (rapper)
 * 3) Husky (rapper)
 * 4) IQ (rapper)
 * 5) Pale (musician)
 * 6) Mozee Montana
 * 7) Ellipsis (rap)
 * 8) Slovetsky (rapper)

Directors

 * 1) Götz Friedrich

Musicologists

 * 1) Ståle Wikshåland
 * 2) Gerald Abraham
 * 3) François-Joseph Fétis
 * 4) Herman Laroche
 * 5) Ernő Lendvai
 * 6) Hugh Macdonald
 * 7) Livery Antonovich Sacchetti

Conductor

 * 1) Roberto Kalb

Performers

 * 1) Leonie Rysanek
 * 2) Arnold Dolmetsch
 * 3) Lev Ivanovich Oshanin
 * 4) Evegeny Bachurin
 * 5) Yakov Flier
 * 6) Agnes Baltsa

Critics

 * Nikolay Kashkin

= Interesting Articles =
 * Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns
 * Straight-Ahead Jazz
 * Five-year plans of the Soviet Union
 * 12th World Festival of Youth and Students
 * 1980 Summer Olympics
 * 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering
 * World Federation of Democratic Youth
 * Nadryw [надрыв / Insurmountable internal strife]
 * Брейк Данс / Break Dance
 * Chernukha / Blackness
 * Bard (Soviet Union)
 * Music psychology
 * Nogu Svelo!
 * Intelligentsia
 * Siege of Leningrad or 900 Days
 * Germania (city) - Theoretical model of 'new' Berlin
 * Germany's Four Year Plan
 * Polity IV - anocracy
 * Degenerate Art Exhibition
 * Integral theory (Ken Wilber)
 * Doctors Plot
 * The_Great_Glinka
 * Socratic_method
 * Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
 * Twenty-one Conditions
 * Virgin Lands Campaign
 * Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
 * Black Hundreds

= Books and Their Terms/Names =

Songs to Seven Strings: G. S. Smith
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 * 1) Bulat Okudzhava
 * 2) Lev Oshanin
 * 3) Vasily Lebedev-Kumach
 * 4) Alexander Galich
 * 5) Yevgeny Yevtushenko
 * 6) Yuly Kim
 * 7) Anri Volokhonsky
 * 8) Novella Matveeva
 * 9) Yaroslav Smelyakov
 * 10) Yuz Aleshkovsky
 * 11) Bertolt Brecht
 * 12) Frank Wedekind
 * 13) Konstantin Vanshenkin
 * 14) Mikhail Matusovsky
 * 15) Sergei Vasilyev
 * 16) Nikolay Dorizo
 * 17) Mikhail Isakovsky
 * 18) Nikolai Dobronravov
 * 19) Robert Rozhdestvensky
 * 20) Alexander Vertinsky
 * 21) Alexander Stein
 * 22) Yaroslav Smelyakov
 * 23) Nikolay Gumilyov
 * 24) Mikhail Tanich
 * 25) Alexander Grin
 * 26) Boris Pilnyak
 * 27) Yevgeny Zamyatin
 * 28) Andrei Sinyavsky
 * 29) Radizdat
 * 30) Pyotr Leshchenko
 * 31) Alexander Zinoviev
 * 32) Yuri Kukin
 * 33) Boris Almazov
 * 34) Yuri Vizbor
 * 35) Alexander Gorodnitsky
 * 36) Evgeny Kliachkin
 * 37) Alexander Dolsky
 * 38) Joseph Brodsky
 * 1) Aleksei Khvostenko
 * 2) Vasiliy Roslyakov
 * 3) Gleb Gorbovsky
 * 4) Sergei Grigorovich Lazutin
 * 5) Akhil Grigorevich Levinton
 * 6) Lenka Panteleev
 * 7) Petr Gradov
 * 8) Lev Kuklin
 * 9) Nikolai Starshinov
 * 10) Igor Shaferan
 * 11) Sergei Grebennikov
 * 12) Aleksi Fatyanov
 * 13) Evgeny Dolmatovsky - Shostakovich's librettist on several occasions
 * 14) Vladimir Kharitonov
 * 15) Vasily Alferov
 * 16) Luka Mudishchev
 * 17) Mikhail Ancharov
 * 18) Valentin Vikhorev

Russian Music and Nationalism: M.F. Walker
1) Pytor Yakovlevich Chaadayev

- Chaadayev's Letters: Argument that Russia was not part of the West and had no culture of its own, responsible with creating the Slavophile/Westerner debate

- The dichotomous position of loathing and loving your country is natural to Russian discourse [Husky fits into this early Intelligentsia mixture]

2) Pavel Annenkov

3) 19th century "Slavophiles" : Rejected the Westernization of Russia and looked to build their own cultural identity

- Ivan Kireyevsky, Alexei Khomyakov, Alaksov Brothers, Yuri Samarin

- England was the model to which they looked for in Russia, English being far enough away from the negative vices of German and France

4) Vladimir Odoyevsky

5) Sergei Solovyov

6) Fyodor Tyutchev

- Heavy influence of Germany and its quality of 'action' and 'reason' in opposition to the nascent Russian identity, whose trait was 'contemplation' and 'impulsivity'

7) Alexander Herzen

8) Lev Shestov

- Derails against the pedanticity of the Europeans and their obsession with time-based activity and the idolization of productivity lest you waste your life [considered Philistinism]

9) Ivan Ilyin

10) Ivan Goncharov

- Oblomovism

11) Vladimir Solovyov

12) Apollon Grigoryev

13) Nikolay Dobrolyubov

- What is Oblomovism? (1859)

14) Vasily Rozanov

= Resources =