Bulat Okudzhava
Pesni Bulata Okudzhavy: melodii i teksty.
Moscow: Muzyka, 1989. Compiled, with introduction, by Lev Shilov. 221 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 10.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. Illustrated with musical scores and b&w photographs.
This compilation brings together the songs of Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (1924-1997), "a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders of the Soviet genre called "author song" (авторская песня, avtorskaya pesnya), or "guitar song", and the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folk song traditions and the French chansonnier style represented by such contemporaries of Okudzhava as Georges Brassens. Though his songs were never overtly political, the freshness and independence of Okudzhava's artistic voice presented a subtle challenge to Soviet cultural authorities, who were thus hesitant for many years to give him official recognition." (Wikipedia)