If you want to know my opinion here's it: Soviets could not survive on ersatz culture of listening to Vyssotsky, eating pelmeni and living in khrushchovkas so they strongly felt need in their home, I mean, need in pleasant traditions that would make them feel at home. As they were not artificially bred lab rats but a millennial nation just like Jews, Poles and Gypsies. And among these traditions of course the ethnic music, so they invented it, you can go listen to DahaBraha, Pelageya, Arkona, Khelavisa, Haydamaki etc.
If asked what kind of music they're playing they won't find an answer, it is nor Russian, nor Ukrainian, nor so calles 'Slavic' (this word has special sense in my Soviet motherland), nor Indian, it isn't even some fusion, just an interpretation of their ill minds of how an 'average ethnic music' should sound. They haven't any answers so I have: the stuff they're playing is Soviet ethnic music, it's traditional music of Soviet ethnicity, freshly invented.
And here's the genuine Russian response to perplexed and extinct Soviets in need to invent things they never had. Enjoy the Pskovian harmonies!
>>14614 It seems like you know what you are talking about but do you have any proofs that music like DakhaBrakha was invented in Soviet Union and had never existed before that?