Sung poetry

This article is about article about poetry that is sung. For poetry of the Chinese Song Dynasty, see Song poetry.

Template:Unreferenced Sung poetry is a broad and imprecise music genre widespread in Eastern European countries, such as Poland and the Baltic States, to describe songs consisting of a poem (most often a ballad) and music written specially for that text. The compositions usually feature a delicate melody and scarce musical background, often comprising a Russian guitar or piano. Some sung poetry performers are singer-songwriters, others use known, published poems, or collaborate with contemporary writers. Artists of sung poetry include people of various occupations usually with little or no particular music education, as well as stage actors.

Sung poetry shares much in common with the author's song in Russia yet differs from it in a significant way: sung poetry performers often do not compose lyrics themselves. Similar artists in other countries are usually classified as bards, folk music or folk rock (such as Jacques Brel, Lluís Llach, Ovidi Montllor, Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Djordje Balasevic, Bulat Okudzhava, Vladimir Vysotsky), or chamber pop. Artists of other musical genres may or may not be included into sung poetry category, such as Czesław Niemen, whose many songs are based on works of esteemed Polish poets, is usually regarded as either a rock or electronic musician. The common forms of expression are individual and collective public performances, festivals of sung poetry, publication of records online and release of music albums.

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Lithuania[]

Vytautas Kernagis
Saulius Mykolaitis
Domantas Razauskas
Andrius Kulikauskas
Vytautas V. Landsbergis
Nojus
Aidas Giniotis
Andrius Kaniava
Eglė Sirvydytė
Saulius Bareikis
Ieva Narkutė
Gediminas Storpirštis
Alina Orlova
Kostas Smoriginas
Olegas Ditkovskis
Romas Lileikis
Virgis Stakėnas
Vidas Petkevičius
Vytautas Babravičius
"Keistuolių Teatras"
"Stipriai Kitaip"

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Poland[]

Cisza Jak Ta
Przemysław Gintrowski
Elżbieta Adamiak
Michał Bajor
Stan Borys
Mirosław Czyżykiewicz
Ewa Demarczyk
Edyta Geppert
Marek Grechuta
Katarzyna Groniec
Jacek Kaczmarski
Robert Kasprzycki
Czesław Niemen
Renata Przemyk
Janusz Radek
Andrzej Sikorowski
Edward Stachura
Basia Stępniak-Wilk
Grzegorz Turnau
Elżbieta Wojnowska
Ilona Sojda
Jacek Różański
Antonina Krzysztoń
"Stare Dobre Małżeństwo"
"Wolna Grupa Bukowina"
"Czerwony Tulipan"
'Lubelska Federacja Bardów'

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Bulgaria[]

Mihail Belchev
Assen Maslarski
Plamen Stavrev
Grisha Trifonov
Margarita Drumeva
Krassimir Purvanov
Ivan Nenkov

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