Talk:Nadezhda Plevitskaya
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[edit] Plevitskomania
According to Jahn (p. 100), "This self-made singer of rural background was instrumental in displacing the gypsy craze with the patriotic and sentimental songs of village life in the prewar years... As one of the first Russian gramophone stars, she had the largest audience of any estrada [variety show] artist of the time, triggering a 'Plevitskomania' all over the country and among all social strata. During the war, Plevitskaya, like some of her colleagues, volunteered as a nurse for a couple of months, and on her own time she appeared in her Red Cross outfit and sang folk songs in hospitals for the wounded. Her recordings were played in gramophones in the trenches, on warships, and in officers' messes, offering nostalgic dreams of homey villages and peasant kitchens."
