Към „медийната археология“ на грамофона в България
Towards the “Media Archeology” of the Gramophone in Bulgaria

(On Technology-Art-Human Relations in the First Half of the Twentieth Century)

Summary/Abstract: The study on the music recorded and reproduced on commercial media places in the framework of the research interest the early recordings of military bands in Bulgaria, recorded and published by the Gramophone Company in the first decades of the twentieth century. The emphasis is on the role of gramophones and gramophone records in Bulgaria as functioning objects (advertisements from periodicals from the first decade of the 20th century, literary works and memoirs are analyzed), symbols (labels are analyzed). Starting from the general picture, the study focuses on the place of the army and professional musicians in early Bulgarian gramophone records, shown as fields of cultural production and habitus. The ratios of genre arrays in early recordings are described and analyzed: "folk" music (folk, potpourri), military music (marches), popular music (Western dance idioms), art music, sound pictures. The relationship of contexts with contents has been sought, bringing out some encounters in military band recordings of Western and local, modern and traditional, political and popular.

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