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. Platonov s is the most comprehensive book in English to date to analyze guitar poetry, which has rarely received scholarly attention outside of Russia. Going well beyond the conventional, text-centered view of guitar poetry as a form of political or artistic dissent, largely a function of the Cold War climate in which it began, Platonov argues for a more complex understanding of...
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 ...
