Една певица по пътя фолклорно-модерно-глобално
A Singer on the Way Folklore-Modern-Global

Summary/Abstract: The movement of Bulgarian folk music from the village to the global village and vice versa can be followed along the road, which the singer Snezhanka Borisova from the village of Lozen has trodden. The life story of this already world famous folk singer, recorded as a biographical narrative, presents information about cultural processes and phenomena, marking the movents local/global, village/global village. Simultaneously the heroine’s narrative reveals her as a focus of cultural processes, a bearer of inherited local folklore culture, surviving her transformations and reflecting phenomena and processes, which occur to the village music in Bulgaria around the borderline between the second and the third millennium. Although living in post-folklore times, Snezhanka Borisova has many features of the village folklore singer: family mechanism oflearning and inheriting a repertoire; imparting information orally (learning and singing songs by ear); pronounced local belonging in respect to style and repertoire; characteristic dialect sounds and ornamental style; personal participation in the creative reproduction of the song tradition by means of the mechanisms of variation, improvisation, composition. Snezhanka Borisova bears in herself folklore together with modernization of tradition. From the generation of the singers, who transferred the unique sounds, style and repertoire of the village tradition into the modem conditions of towns and cities, in her biography she has survived the period of folklore ensembles (a phenomenon connected with the presentation of the transformed folklore in a modem medium with modern means) and the media (recording and distribution of reproduced and standardized folklore music by radio, television, albums). Her repertoire has enriched and changed -it drifts away from the local, becomes supra-regional, part of the constructed Bulgarian national music. The global period if the creative biography of Snezhanka Borisova started during her joint work Goran Bregovich. Snezhanka and the Bulgarian singers were chosen because they have a combination of the necessary qualities: emblematic presence with the label of the mysterious Bulgarian voices, exotic Shop-style polyphonic singing and songs and ability to improvise and experiment. In the concert spectacle of Bregovich they have a fragmentary participation, they sing vocalisi (only “Chichovite konje” is included with two couplets), where their participation is laid upon performances of a symphonic orchestra, choir, brass band and a permanent group of players on instruments characteristic both of the Balkan town music and rock music. Having travelled all over the world, having participated and participating in big and small, but still global (as a way of thinking) musical adventures, Snezhanka Borisova has never left her native village. Because she is convinced that a person’s power, chance and qualities originate from his/her mother land and roots.

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