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Article: ENSEMBLE AIMS TO KEEP ALIVE FOLK TRADITIONS OF RUSSIA'S PAST.(Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 25, 1996
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Folk music and dance in 20th-century Russia have had two deadly enemies: modernization, which kept busily sweeping away traditions no longer deemed relevant, and official state policy, which sought to discard the old in the name of the 1918 revolution.
Their defenders include Dmitri Pokrovsky, founder of the Pokrovsky Ensemble.
``I want to preserve this culture to make it safe in the future,'' he says. ``Now, it can only be found in small villages, deep in rural Russia.''
``Both the modern world and Russian state pushed it away. The latter tried to replace folk culture with government-approved high culture. Officials also said people should ...