Възрожденска песенност и културна идентичност. Въведение в проблема. Ранни училищни песни
National Revival Songs and Cultural Identity. Introduction to the Problem. Early School Songs

Summary/Abstract: The concept National Revival songs includes school, love and/or lyrical-elegiac, revolutionary and historical songs, which were sung during the 19th century. These songs were rationalized by their contemporaries as “new”, different from the traditional-folklore and church-liturgical songs. They occupy a significant place in the processes of national and cultural identification, characteristic for the Bulgarian National Revival. The main roles in these processes are played by the first representatives of the Bulgarian intellectuals – the teachers, the so-called “enlighteners”. They are the leading authors of the Natonal Revival songs. The formation of the national point of view has been traced – first by rationalizing the past (Slav-Bulgarian History by Father Paisyi, the second half of the 18th century), and afterwards by “programming” the present and the future (the 40-70s of the 19th century). The authenticity of the transition from old – traditional to new – European system of thinking, considered on the basis of the material of the early school songs (the 40s of the 19th century), enables us to talk not so much about “social engineering” as about “social creation”, realized by the teachers-enlighteners closely connected with the village and town communities.

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