Музика и пространствена организация на календарния обреден цикъл. Преосмисляне на селищното пространство при разпада на традиционната култура
Music and Spatial Organization of the Calendar Rite Cycle. Re-Conceptualizing Village Space during the Period of Traditional Culture's Disintegration

Summary/Abstract: The current article has two parts, the first of which discusses how music activities of an isolated local community reveal the spatial reference points of the traditional culture and their meaning. On the basis of calendar cycle cf festive days an attempt for a synchronic analysis is undertaken and there is made the conclusion that the places marked by its music as functionally important are the real spatial centers of the cultural system. Connections between music activities and oppositions of inner-outer in everyday life and in festive situations, as well as the transformation of space in rituals, are also followed. Taking into consideration the entire calendar cycle, the article marks the opening of the life of the community "outward" and "upward" in the winter and spring periods, and in the opposite direction — towards the village and the home — in the summer and in the autumn. In such a way, the article outlines the functional re-direction of the important spatial reference points of the local culture. The second part shows what happens to those reference points during the disintegration of the traditional cultural system in the socialist period (i.e. it includes a "diachronic" historical review of the changes). The author follows how the religious bans and the creation of the village co-operatives contribute substantially to the disintegration of the basic characteristics of the traditional social and cultural system. She also points out how the surviving traditional rites and the music activities that are connected with them change functionally, as well as how holidays, which are new for the community are "imported." In that situation, the re-structuring and reconceptualization of the village space are at the same time an element and a result of the disintegration of the previous cultural system. Whereas old spatial reference points of traditional culture change their meanings, the new festive spaces do not retain the ambiguity of the previous ones.

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