Музикалният фонд на радиопредаванията за турското население в България: формиране, личности, съдържание (60-те – 80-те години на XX век)
A Music Collection of Radio Broadcasts for Ethnic Turks in Bulgaria: Formation, Personalities, Contents (1960s – 1980s)

Summary/Abstract: The traditional music of the ethnic Turkish community in the conditions of the cultural policy pursued in Bulgaria under socialism was institutionalised, acquiring new contexts of performance, representative functions, political use and art forms. This was done mainly by three public structures: local amateur music ensembles, Turkey’s state-run theatres, and Radio Sofia, particularly its Broadcasts for Ethnic Turks in Bulgaria. Recognising the role of music to ensure radio listening and achieve the goals of propaganda and counterpropaganda, special efforts were made to gather a rich and varied music collection for their needs. Most actively the collection was built in the 1960s – 1980s by music editors Dimiter Dinev, Turgut Shinikarov, Boyan Nankov and Aglika Kuneva. They were tasked with making the music programmes for the broadcasts, finding gifted Turkish musicians and/or an interesting repertoire, creating arrangements of Turkish songs and instrumental pieces and organising recordings at studios. In 1965 Dimiter Dinev was behind the idea of forming a full-time ensemble of musically educated Bulgarian musicians to accompany the visiting Turkish singers. He also came up with an idea, which unfortunately remained unimplemented, of establishing a representative Turkish radio choir and orchestra in order to foster the development of the rest of Turkish ensembles in Bulgaria by giving high-class concerts and making studio recordings. The music collection meant to be broadcast for ethnic Turks in Bulgaria contains mainly recordings of local traditional (Rumeli) music of ethnic Turks as well as Turkish pop, children’s, pioneers’, mass and revolutionary songs (mostly translated), along with non-Turkish music (with an ‘Eastern ring’ to it, from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan etc., received by way of exchange, as well as Bulgarian music). Presently, the collection catalogue contains more than 3,000 items, an impressive number, resulting from the dedicated collaborative efforts of talented Turkish and Bulgarian musicians.

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