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Singing the Self : Guitar Poetry, Community, and Identity in the Post-Stalin Period / Rachel S. Platonov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Platonov, Rachel S.
- Series:
- Studies in Russian literature and theory.
- Studies in Russian literature and theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Songs, Russian--20th century--History and criticism.
- Songs, Russian.
- Marginality, Social--Soviet Union.
- Marginality, Social.
- Popular music--Social aspects--Soviet Union--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 271 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is a study of a Soviet cultural phenomenon of the 1950s through the 1980s known as guitar poetry--songs accompanied by guitar and considered poetry in much the same way as those of, for example, Bob Dylan.
- 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".
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-6617-8
- OCLC:
- 830022959
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