„Музикалните цветове на света“ в диалог
“The Music Colours of the World” in Dialogue

Summary/Abstract: This study seeks to explore the opening of Bulgaria’s concert life to the music outside the European traditions and the realities of the intercultural dialogue. The observation focuses on concert events held mostly in Sofia over the recent years. These would show the world music from a number of points of view. The major presented music layers, stage images of various music cultures and the reflection achieved are being analysed. An attempt is made to show strategies underlying particular cultural and business polices. This study comes as a continuation of a series of my surveys, analyses and publications of the 1980s well until these days. The events observed in the recent years are placed in the context of a process of extending Bulgaria’s cultural, political and economic contacts. In the explored samples, dialogue in music is maintained at different levels as modernization of the dimensions past–present, as interrelations between traditional – compositional – popular, as regional–out-of-area. Particular music images of respective cultures are created depending on the level of knowledge, goals, vogues, certain consumers and options for profit or courting popularity. Along with presenting traditional heritage, strongly arranged works are performed more often than not. Modernisation and hybridisation of various layers of music extend distribution spheres. Thus a next stage of dialogueness of cultures is being reached on a very large scale and Bulgaria serves as an example of the ways to adopt the diversity of world music.

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