Изпитание, борба, преход и постигане на знание: музическото в първата половина на индивидуалния жизнен цикъл в традиционната култура
Hardship, Struggle, Transition and Achievement of Knowlege: the Musingly in the First Half of the Individual Life Cycle in the Traditional Culture

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a phase from the experiment of entire reconstruction of traditional culture of a locally isolated community (in the village of Kozichino, the district of Bourgas), the starting point of this reconstruction being the music activities. Here the borderlines between different life periods are revealed as well as the transition from one ritual and social role into another by their dislocation in the course of human life. Attention is drawn to the life cycle not so much as a cycle of rituals, but more to the interval between these rituals -to the time when a person belongs to a definite age group and has a concrete social status. The exposition is limited to the period from one’s birth to one’s wedding and the birth of the first child. The first three periods - infancy, childhood and adolescence are connected with each other and the transitions between them are smooth. Within the childhood itself there are two stages - until the age of 5-6 and until the age of 10. The transition from the youth period into the “group of adults” also takes place in several stages: a period of girlhood /bachelorhood, a period of engagement and a period of newly-weds (which is over approximately-but not immediately - after the birth of the first child). This first half of life is marked by the line: emissary-pupil-devotee. In the course of socialization and consecration two lines are interwoven -acquirement of knowledge (and knowledge is acquired by means of learning something as well as by resisting something) and overcoming hardships (which are differentiated into two types -towards activating or towards resisting certain, including musical, activities). The specifics of the local tradition can show the direct relationship of musical activities with these two basic elements of socialization in traditional culture.

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