Теренни музикалнофолклорни проучвания в Казанлъшко през шестото десетилетие на ХХ век
Fieldwork in folk music from the region of Kazanluk of the 1960s

Summary/Abstract: The paper constitutes a link of the large-scale activities of the Institute of Music, BAS. Performing its permanent tasks to collect, safeguard and publish Bulgaria’s treasure trove of folk songs and seeking to gradually draw a map of Bulgarian folk music, a number of places in the region of Kazanluk have been visited by solo or group expeditions. Folk music from that region has been collected ever since the early twentieth century mostly by local teachers and champions of the preservation of folklore; still, the most thorough work was conducted in the 1960s by folklorists from the Institute of Music: Elena Stoin, Todor Djidjev, Anna Ilieva and other members of the staff of the Department of Folk Music. An analysis of the holdings kept now at the Institute of Art Studies, shows that the best part of the records from the region of Kazanluk has been made after 1954. The fact that of 30 of a total of 50 observed places these are the only recordings kept at the archive, proves that the visits to these places have not been just ‘treading in the footsteps’ of previous collectors or to further enrich the archive’s holdings by adding unrecorded samples, but rather resultoriented trips to unstudied areas, made after mapping out a zoning plan and careful preparations.

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