Abstract
The article explores the phenomenon of constructing individual worlds through the prism of Russian rock as a cultural and psychological phenomenon. Using the example of the analysis of the texts of key groups of the genre (Agatha Christie, Picnic, The King and the Jester, etc.), it is demonstrated how music becomes an instrument of existential resistance, allowing listeners and authors to preserve identity in the context of social crises. The study reveals the mechanisms of transformation of musical discourse from social protest of the 1980s to philosophical reflection of the 1990s – 2000s and the evolution of the themes of Russian rock from the protest underground to philosophical understanding of inner freedom, emphasizing its role in the formation of an alternative space, which serves as a strategy for recreating identity in the existential loneliness of a globalizing world. The purpose of this study is to identify the role of Russian rock as an instrument for constructing individual worlds and existential resistance, to consider its significance as a phenomenon that contributes to the formation of identity in the context of social crises and globalization. In the context of social transformations and existential challenges, art traditionally acts as a reflection of the collective unconscious, but its role is not limited to mirroring reality: an individual often turns to alternative ways of self-realization, where art becomes not only a form of escapism, but also a component of identity construction, one of the key instruments of which is music, which performs the functions of psychological compensation, communication and identification. Russian rock, having gone the way from underground protest to philosophical reflection, asserted the right to an individual universe as a new norm; thus, an analysis of the lyrics of key performers of the movement demonstrates that the creation of alternative spaces in music is not an escape from reality, but only one of the ways of understanding it, representing a strategy of resistance to reality through recoding meanings, in the era of digital fragmentation of consciousness becoming a key experience of preserving identity.
Keywords
Russian rock, underground, escapism, existential protest, philosophical reflection