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Author Platonov, Rachel S.

Title Singing the self : guitar poetry, community, and identity in the post-Stalin period / Rachel S. Platonov
Published Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in Russian literature and theory
Studies in Russian literature and theory.
Contents Contexts Beyond the Soviet sixties: the origins and contexts of guitar poetry -- Gray zones: theories of marginality in a Russian-Soviet context -- Guitar poetry's selves and communities -- Guitar poetry and the creation of lichnost' -- The "KSP state": audience reception, self-fashioning, and "conversations between friends" -- Lyrical marginalities and beyond -- Overt marginality: antisovetchina -- Covert marginality: the significance of insignificance -- Genre-bending and "hypergenericity."
Summary "This book is a study of a Soviet cultural phenomenon of the 1960s and 70s known as guitar poetry - songs accompanied by guitar and considered poetry in much the same way as those of, for example, Bob Dylan. Platonov's is the most comprehensive book in English to date to analyze guitar poetry, which has rarely received scholarly attention outside of Russia."--Project Muse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Songs, Russian -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Marginality, Social -- Soviet Union
Popular music -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Marginality, Social
Popular music -- Social aspects
Songs, Russian
Music History & Criticism, Popular - Jazz, Rock, etc.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Music.
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780810166172
0810166178