Академизацията и академичната институция „История на българската музика“
Academization and the Academic Institution 'History of Bulgarian Music'

Summary/Abstract: The adoption of the subject “History of Bulgarian music” (both into higher and secondary school) as academic institution was not a deliberate act. Through the curriculum, the lists of representative authors and works, the textbooks and particularly through the figure of the teacher, the subjects acquires great importance for the professional building-up of the musician. It forms the idea of Bulgarian music, validates the genre hierarchy, creates the conceptual apparatus, determines the beginning as well as the classical achievements. The delayed introduction of the subject occurred under the conditions of institutional prospects, the ideological and political reasons of socialist musical art, which needs specific past to make it the heir to everything progressive, national and democratic. The lists of composers and works are both exhaustive and selective whereas the stories are descriptive. The approach is “classical” (respectful) and everything is important. The cultural situation in the 1970s, which some prefer to consider post­ modernist, as well as the social, political and cultural change in the 1990s need rationalization. The state of the Bulgarian musical culture at present can be recognized as a crisis, even as a crisis of the idea of a stable fund of Bulgarian music. In this situation the approach to the fund of musical works is not “classical” any more, but “genealogical”. With such an approach, the treasure-fund of Bulgarian music can be seen not as a naturally arising corpus of valuable works, but as discontinuous and fortuitous.

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