Singing the self [electronic resource] : guitar poetry, community, and identity in the post-Stalin period / Rachel S. Platonov.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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".

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