От тривиално към оригинално: синтезът в практиката на Ку-Ку Бенд
From Trivial to Original: the synthesis in the practice of Kou-Kou Band

Summary/Abstract: Based on the Keith Negus’ idea distinguishing three types of popular musicians - genericists, pastichists, and synthesists (Negus 1996), - the paper is focused on the music of Kou-Kou Band , one of the icon-bands in Bulgaria during the 1990s, which can be qualified, in general, under the label of ‘’world music”, and also as a kind of ethno-rock. Seen as a specific synthesis of different genre, style, and a variety of ethnic musical sources drawn from Bulgaria, the Balkans, the European, the Oriental, the established and the alternative, the folk and the non-folk, blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, and latino, the band is analyzed in terms of its dialogical and alternative cultural potential giving a birth to new developments in today’s popular music which features a fascinating interplay between the global, the local, and the concept of the music irony, innovates the trivial idiomatic language, and questioning however the idea of the national identity as a frozen category.

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