„MORNING GYMNASTICS” BY VLADIMIR VYSOTSKY – JOGGING ON THE SPOT Cover Image

"УТРИННАта ГИМНАСТИКА" НА ВЛАДИМИР ВИСОЦКИ – БЯГАНЕ НА МЯСТО
„MORNING GYMNASTICS” BY VLADIMIR VYSOTSKY – JOGGING ON THE SPOT

Author(s): Vladimir Dilovski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: Vladimir Vysotsky; "Morning Gymnastics"; running; ironically; power; responses to power

Summary/Abstract: This article is a more unconventional reading of Vysotsky's song "Morning Gymnastics" as a unity of text and music. Two analytical approaches are presented: 1) from the point of view of the composition of each of the stanzas/couplets: light phase, dark phase, "slashing" final word (analogy to "kata" - from Japanese: a series of rhythmically performed fighting postures) and 2 ) tracing the meaning "spirals" in the text – I, you, everything/everyone, apathy, fear, fiction.The entire text is played ironically and theatrically with the help of the "heroes" - the gymnastics, the guitar, the voices of the ruler, of the speaker...

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 172-194
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Bulgarian
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