Нова пътека към корените на националната ни идентичност
New Way to Roods of National Identity

Summary/Abstract: Thе book „What is the Authentic Bulgarian Church Singing” (еd. Julian Kouyumdzhiev) comprises 141 texts relating to a discussion unfolding mainly on the pages of the Bulgarian periodicals since the early 1890s to the early 1940s. The discussion about the „аuthentic Bulgarian church singing” („Bolgarskij Rospev” or Eastern chants in their Church Slavonic translation) were exceptionally important for the Bulgarian society. The book documents the public attitudes to the Bulgarian singing traditions in the domain of church services and discloses the cultural and historic meaning of the discussion about the “authentic Bulgarian church chants”, thus opening way for further research into the Bulgarian church music after the Liberation.

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