Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-259) 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"