Преподаване на знания за фолклорна музика в български висши учебни заведения
Teaching Knowledge of Traditional Music in Bulgarian Higher Educational Institutions

Summary/Abstract: Teaching knowledge of traditional music in Bulgarian higher educational institutions has its decades-long history. In this paper processes and tendencies are followed, facts are analyzed and objective laws are outlined for three main periods of academic teaching of traditional music. During the first period (1921-1944), traditional music was introduced as academic subject. Stoian Djudjev is the first and the only one who developed a lecture course with theoretical orientation. The second period (1994-1990) marked the affirmation of the subject and the expansion of its area. It was taught in several higher educational institutions and in the sphere of traditional music performance, the model developed by AMDA - Plovdiv was adopted The last period (the1990s), the teaching of traditional music was under the sign of new fields and new approaches: liberalization, new academic standards and practices, breaking away from the narrow subject and ethnocentric boundaries. The interpretation of academic teaching of traditional music in the text has been made in the light of personal experience. On the basis of over 10 year teaching practice in several higher educational institutions, problems are analyzed and prospects for the academic development of the subject are presented.

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