Лозанка Пейчева: „Между Селото и Вселената. Старата фолклорна музика от България в новите времена”
Lozanka Peycheva: Between the Village and the Universe: Old Folk Music from Bulgaria in New Times

Summary/Abstract: For more than a century now in Bulgaria is observed a cultural phenomenon occurring as a result of the historic transition of the country and the society from pre-modernity towards modernization and post-modernity. This is a multilevel change of the traditional music, which from “pure”, in other words, locally-specific, gradually transformed to something else, however preserving its profound and essential energy potential. This other, transformed in many aspects music folklore is the object of the newest important scientific work of Lozanka Peycheva Between Village and Universe: Old Folk Music from Bulgaria in New Times. The process of the transition in Bulgarian traditional music has been a topic of a number of separated readings and interpretations. The contribution of the author is namely in the fully and sufficiently comprehensive, at the same time detailed in the analysis monographic research of this multilevel transition, which Peycheva connects with the influence of its cultural and historical factors, such as the modernization and the globalization. This large scale task was solved through interdisciplinary methods – applied are methods and cogitative devices of theory, systematic classification, history and cultural anthropology. The vast empirical material of this work is subdivided into three sections, following the funneling approach -from the general (universal) through special and uncommon to the particular and individual. In other words, from the cosmos-world, through the dimensions of the national and local music cultures, and their institutions, to every single individual, creator and consumer.

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