Грамофонната плоча и колективната памет в България
The phonograph record and the collective memory in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: The earliest surviving sound evidence of music and musicians from Bulgaria is on commercial shellac phonograph records at 78 rpm. from the early twentieth century. Early phonograph records contain resources for the study of the cultural and musical history of Bulgaria, far exceeding the limits of musical content. Being both a historical object and a sound source, commercial phonograph records as the main carrier of the media music and culture industry in the early twentieth century have an untapped resource for ethnomusicological study of music-making and its actors and spaces in a remote time with which we have no direct contact and other sounding testimonies. Records as aural testimonies stored in archives and collections can replace, in the case of early recordings, the impossible “field work” of the ethnomusicologist to explore collective memory and cultural interactions through them.

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