Songs to Seven Strings Russian Guitar Poetry and Soviet "Mass Song"

• Main Author: Smith, Gerald Stanton (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Indiana University Press 1984
• Subjects: History of other lands; History of specific lands
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In the early 1960s, searching for a fresh style and a new way of bringing their words to the Soviet public, a number of Russian poets began singing their verse to their own solo accompaniment on the traditional seven-stringed guitar. At about the same time, tape recorders became widely available in...