The participants in the professional discussions included in this book—composers and musicians, philosophers and historians, journalists and filmmakers—reflect and debate seriously and at the same time lightly about rock and soundtracks, classical and popular music. The book is published as part of Nikolai Solodnikov's project 'Dialogues. Open Library.'

Among the participants in the discussions:
Yulia Bederova, Ilya Demutsky, Leonid Desyatnikov, Kirill Ivanov, Dina Kirnarskaya, Alexander Manotskov, Vladimir Martynov, Petr Meshcherinov, Alexey Munipov, Oleg Nesterov, Polina Osetinskaya, Yuri Saprykin, Alexander Sekatsky, Evgeny Fedorov, Andrey Khrzhanovsky, and Natalya Chumakova.

The author, whom the Russian Ministry of Justice considers a foreign agent, participated in the creation of this publication.