Rayok
A rayok (Russian: Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "IPA"., Template:Literally "small paradise") was a Russian fairground peep show. Performed using a box with pictures viewed through magnifying lenses, these were accompanied by lewd rhymed jokes.[1] The Fall of Adam and Eve was one of the most popular topics. The term rayok has also come to be applied to rhymed humorous talk shows, without peeping, featuring a kind of rhymed prose. The expression "to talk rayok", говорить райком, thus means to speak in a rhymed, humorous way, to patter. Rayok, in both its peep show and talk show forms, has been an occupation of wandering artists called "rayoshniks". When used as the title for a piece of music, rayok implies a scurrilous entertainment, as in:
- Rayok, an extended song by Modest Mussorgsky also known as Peep-Show
- Anti-formalist Rayok, a cantata by Dmitri Shostakovich also known as Little Paradise, The Gods and A Learner's Manual
See also
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Novik, Alina (2019). "«Народная косморама»: происхождение русского райка в контексте истории оптических медиа XIX века". “Новое литературное обозрение (in русский). 156 (2).
