Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
The term bard (Russian: бард bard) came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s and continues to be used in Russia today to refer to singer-songwriters who wrote songs outside the Soviet establishment similarly to beatnik folk singers of the United States. Because in bard music songwriters perform their own songs the genre is also commonly referred to as author song (авторская песня avtorskaya pesnya).
