The term bard (бард) came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, and continues to be used in Russia and some other post-Soviet states today, to refer to singer-songwriters who wrote and performed songs outside the Soviet establishment. Because in bard music songwriters perform their own songs, the genre is also commonly referred to as author song (Russian: авторская песня, avtorskaya pesnya) or bard song (Russian: бардовская песня, bardovskaya pesnya).
The term bard (бард) came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, and continues to be used in Russia and some other post-Soviet states today, to refer to singer-songwriters who wrote and performed songs outside the Soviet establishment. Because in bard music songwriters perform their own songs, the genre is also commonly referred to as author song (Russian: авторская песня, avtorskaya pesnya) or bard song (Russian: бардовская песня, bardovskaya pesnya).
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