Музикално изразяване на идентичност в чуждоегнична среда
Musical Expression of Identity in Foreign Ethnic Environment

Summary/Abstract: The problem of the personal cultural identity is presented in relation to the community identity. One of the possible viewpoints of the personality towards the world comes from the consciousness for ethnic belonging. The modem type of culture derives from the past certain values through which it identifies itself and demonstrates its importance. Some of these values refer to the folklore, conceptualized as a cultural heritage, as a record of the cultural memory of ethnic communities, and also as a shared culture reviving a notion for common ethnic belonging. This text presents forms of expressing Bulgarian identity through the language of music, more particularly, through the language of folk music functioning among Bulgarian communities who live in foreign ethnical environments in Hungary and Slovakia. It focuses on forms of attracting and using folk music on holidays and everyday lives by Bulgarians of different age and with different cultural interests, on the time and the reasons for settling down in another country, on specific social and professional environments. Looking at the ways of manifesting and experiencing the Bulgarian roots with our compatriots, the observations argue in terms of a strong presence of Bulgarian musical folklore in their culture.

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