Местните таксономии и жанровете
Local Taxonomies and Genres in a Traditional Musical Culture

Summary/Abstract: This article is a part of the unpublished Ph.D. dissertation of Tsenka Yordanova “Typology of the Sound Media in Rituals”, Sofia, 1982 (manuscript). The article reveals several specific problems of the understanding of the core of a certain traditional musical culture through its own native local taxonomies, compared to the scientific professional objective classifications and genre systems. The concrete illustrative material is an extrapolation from the field notes and the long lasting fieldwork of the author in the region of Southeast Bulgaria (Strandzha). There is an interplay of the local taxonomies, on the one hand (like “new songs”, “old deep songs”, “dreamed songs” and so on), and the ideas and concepts of contemporary ethnomusicology, on the other.

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