TWO SONGS ABOUT HOCKEY PLAYERS: ANCHAROV AND VYSOTSKY |
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| 2025 |
| scientific article | 821.161.1 | ||
| 70-81 | Анчаров, Высоцкий, авторская песня, хоккей, ода, фельетон, мифопоэтика, реминисценция, Ancharov, Vysotsky, singer-songwriter song, hockey, ode, feuilleton, mythopoetics, reminiscence |
| This article presents a comparative analysis of two original songs on a common hockey theme: "Songs about Hockey Players" by Mikhail Ancharov (1964; the dating is specified in the article) and "Professionals" by Vladimir Vysotsky (1967). Ancharov's song, written on commission for the film "Hockey Players" but ultimately not included in it, features a complex mythopoetic imagery that transcends the cinematic context and the hockey theme, offering universal human content. This may have contributed to its exclusion from the film. Ancharov, who humorously referred to himself as an "ode-writer," celebrates the high spirit of the hockey game. In contrast, Vysotsky's song, which is extraordinarily interesting from the perspective of poetics and language (with its virtuosic rhyming and puns), contains satirical motifs directed at Canadian players and ironic allusions to Soviet sports propaganda. It can be classified as a poetic feuilleton. Together, these two works complement each other and create a rich poetic picture of the hockey game. Based on textual echoes, it is suggested that Vysotsky, as a bard who experienced significant creative influence from Ancharov in the second half of the 1960s, was aware of his older colleague's song and may have drawn inspiration from it when writing his own. |
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