Горица Найденова: „Година–живот–история. Битие и разпад на една традиционна култура през погледа на етномузиколога“
Goritsa Naydenova: The Year–Life–History. The Life and Decline of a Traditional Culture as Seen Through

Summary/Abstract: This book is a musical-anthropological research study in which music is examined not only in the context of culture, but rather music itself is treated as culture. In addition to this the author puts culture and music in mutually dependent and mutually interpreting relationships in which: “not only the meaningful levels of music are explained through culture, but also a series of cultural characteristics are illuminated through music. Or – [it is] an attempt at reconstructing a cultural system through its music.” The rich observational data, scientific conclusions and conceptions are structured into two parts. The first contains a reconstruction via a synchronic vestige of traditional culture in the village of Erkech (Kozichino), which is characterized by its conservatism and resilience, which aided in its preservation up until the 1950s. The second half diachronically traces the disintegration of traditional culture in the second half of the 20th century, and also discusses later and newer forms of preservation and revitalization of local folklore. Both approaches - the synchronic-reconstructing and the diachronichistoricizing - reveal two different, mutually complementary sides of the cultural tradition being studied, of its ritual system and its later preservationist-”musuemifying” and reducedfor- the-stage transformations. Goritsa Naydenova’s work is unique among academic musical-anthropological research studies of a single local traditional culture, characteristic of the holistic musicalritual system of the past. As an academic accomplishment it can be described as a unique standard and as a necessary jumping-off point for further research in this field.

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