The Scene of Musical Nostalgia in Russia on the Example of Soviet Wave

Although retro renaissance in popular music is far from uncommon, the very existence and development of contemporary music that seeks to emulate the style and sound of the past is a corresponding development of nostalgic sentiments for music that represents a long bygone era, which is manifested in the current generation of musicians and spectators. Unlike traditional experiences of nostalgia, for example, in relation to childhood, this tendency to restore the past in music is aimed at satisfying precisely the ersatz nostalgia - the desire for a past that has never been experienced and which is evidenced only by cultural artifacts and socially constructed memory. In this work, the Phenomenon Soviet Wave, as an example of this type of music, which attempted to recreate the feeling of a long past time, is considered using the concept of ersatz nostalgia, in order to study in more detail as the very manifestation of nostalgia of this kind, “without life experience or manifestations of collective memory ”And the peculiarities of Soviet Wave as a scene of musical nostalgia in Russia. This paper attempts to describe the online community dedicated to the Sovietwave genre, as well as its characteristics as a virtual scene. Based on interviews with musicians, a description of the manifestations of ersatz nostalgia is provided, which is found in the music of the Soviet Wave genre: an orientation towards the sound of compositions of the past, artificial "aging" of sound, recreation of the aesthetics of the past in audio and visual forms.