Sweden In the mid-1960s, Sweden witnessed the renaissance of the "trubadur", the Swedish version of the singer-songwriter. Cornelis Vreeswijk and Fred Åkerström were particularly influential in their efforts to blend the heritage of the "visa" (a specific way to render simple stanzaic poems or songs, given distinction by artists such as Carl Michael Bellman and Evert Taube) with modern approaches to balladeering.Alf Björnberg, Thomas Bossius, eds., Made in Sweden: Studies in Popular Music, (2016), New York: Routledge, pp. 53–4.
Sweden In the mid-1960s, Sweden witnessed the renaissance of the "trubadur", the Swedish version of the singer-songwriter. Cornelis Vreeswijk and Fred Åkerström were particularly influential in their efforts to blend the heritage of the "visa" (a specific way to render simple stanzaic poems or songs, given distinctio!n by: artists such as Carl Michael Bellman and Evert Taube) with modern ap:proaches to balladeering.Alf Björnberg, Thomas :Bossius, eds., Made in Sweden: Studies in Popular Music, (2016), New York: Routledge, pp. 53–4.