Zum aktuellen Stand der professionellen Musikausbildung in Russland by Irina Susidko, Pavel Lucker

“…The article also identifies the place of academic and non-academic specialties (folk instruments, ethnomusicology, folklore singing) in Russian professional education, the distribution of educational material and its role in ’academic’ Western European and ’non academic’ folk and pop music. …”
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Sakha Music: Selling 'Exotic' Europeanness in Asia and Asianness in Europe by Aimar Ventsel

“…In a period from the late 1990s to 2007, the same artists have switched from pop to rock to folk music, using different languages and different costumes, performing as Asian or European artists. comparing these strategies, one can see how Sakha musicians use cultural stereotypes of foreign audiences for economic purposes.…”
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Entre fidélité et adaptation : la traduction en chinois de la chanson « Penser l’impossible » dans Mozart, l’opéra rock by Miao Li

“… Le traducteur de chansons, notamment pop et folk, se voit tiraillé entre souci de fidélité au texte source et nécessité d’adaptation à la langue cible. …”
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Zwischen Traditionalismus und Modernisierung: Musikausbildung in Russland by Irina Susidko, Pavel Lutsker

“…This position remains firmly established in the training of all musical specialities: pianists, orchestral musicians, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, musicians on folk instruments and even pop musicians. Of course, this picture of blissful conservatism is not without its problems. …”
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