The National Festival of Folklore in Koprivshtitsa in the Context of a Local Community

Author(s): Milena Lyubenova,Stela Nenova / Language(s): English Issue: Special 2/2020

The article describes the National Festival of Folklore in Koprivshtitsa in through the eyes of a particular local community, that of the village of Bistritsa, Sofia region. The study is based on fieldwork conducted in January 2015 at the local community centre. The main method of investigation is the semi-structured interview, which offers local people the opportunity to select the most significant moments in their narratives and to express their own understanding and interpretations of folklore heritage. The authors pay particular attention to the processes of transformation of local tradition into cultural heritage, which became especially visible after the 1930s and the 1940s. The text outlines the processes and means by which the local community presents its culture and understands the necessity of its contemporary safeguarding as a living practice. The influence of local and national cultural institutions is duly marked, including the influence of the local community centre and the National Festival of Folklore in Koprivshtitsa. Special attention is also given to these institutions’ contributions towards the conceptualization of different elements of the respondents’ local culture and the ways in which local culture becomes a resource for the construction of different networks of identities: cultural, local and national. The text also highlights the basic accents and interpretations in the narratives of the respondents who discuss the National Festival; the Festival’s importance as a place for the representation of their traditional village cultural elements; its role in their preservation; the character of the Festival stage and changes to it through the years; as well as the personal experiences of the community members during the Festival.

Ruzha Neykova. Ethnocultural Parallels along the Route of the Old Bulgarians in the Balkan-Caucasian Territories and the Volga Region. Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of BAS / Tangra TanNakRa Foundation, 2015. 520 p.

Author(s): Veselka Toncheva / Language(s): English Issue: Special 2/2020

Book review

Elka Bakalova. The Cult of Relics and Miracle-Working Icons. Traditions and Modernity. Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of BAS, 2016. 194 p., with illustrations

Author(s): Ivanka Gergova / Language(s): English Issue: Special 2/2020

Book review

Периодика 2021

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology, and art studies

Бразилското Синема ново и критическата рефлексия (Приносът на Пауло Емилио Салес Гомес и Алекс Виани)

Author(s): Boryana Mateeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 11/2022

In the 50-ies and beginning of the 60-ies two great film critics and historians Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes and Alex Viany have a fundamental impact on the Brazilian Cinema novo and influence its flourishment and world recognition. With their erudition, knowledge of world cinema processes, huge critic’s activity and “militant cinephily” they educated and guided the young directors towards professional achievement and the search of national identity applying originally the lessons of the Italian neorealism and the French New wave. Their contribution to the revelation of the national film legacy, the new film movements, the foundation of a modern Film archive, the inauguration of the film education in Brazil and the oldest film festival in the country is undeniable.

Човешката мярка като академичен етос

Author(s): Snezhana Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 11/2022

A collection of works ‘Sociology as a civic commitment’ dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Professor Petya Kabakchieva, (Sofia, St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2022) contains articles and studies written by established Bulgarian sociologists and social scientists and their younger followers. Compilers of the collection are Maya Grekova, Mila Mineva, Lea Vaysova and Dimitar Blagoev.

Рецензия на „Жени отвъд архива. Невидимите истории на жените в България“ на Нурие Муратова

Author(s): Georgeta Nazarska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 11/2022

The text reviews the scientific monograph of Nurie Muratova ‚Women beyond the Archive. Invisible Histories of Women in Bulgaria‘, published by University Press ‚Neofit Rilsky‘ in Blagoevgrad. The book explores the place in the Bulgarian and world archives of two marginalized social groups – women and women with minority status. It is established that their visibility and invisibility, accessibility and secrecy, significance and underestimation depend on certain archival policies, social conditions, social stereotypes and prejudices.

Зооморфната маска в зимните маскарадни игри: примерът Турка

Author(s): Emilia Boyadzhieva-Peeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

The article studies the winter masquerade custom of Turka, as the central object of investigation is its variant from the Romanian village of Cuciulata in Transylvania. In the course of more than a century, the outlook of this mask has remained almost unchanged. The author offers analyses on the altering functions of the mask as an artefact playing the roles of a ritual object and a museum exponent.

Културни наследства и сетивна антропология – бележки от терена

Author(s): Irena Bokova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2021

The article offers observations and preliminary notes from the study of cultural heritages with a focus on sensory images and their perception, expression, and communication. Sensory and visual anthropology are applied as research tools in the context of their complementarity and adequacy in regards with specific spheres of study. The author presents some results of her fieldwork in the form of visual archives and short anthropological films, which give further knowledge of the senses and their instrumentalisation for the generation of meanings and values.

Взаимодействието културно наследство – творчество: как модните дизайнери преоткриват културното наследството като съвременен дизайн

Author(s): Kristina Savova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2021

The aim of the article is to outline and analyse the relationship between fashion and cultural heritage as a source of inspiration for fashion designers. Several examples of French fashion houses are considered, and fashion as art is discussed. In the highly competitive context of modern global fashion and luxury industry, creative practices and processes can be viewed in direct connection with cultural heritage. The interaction between cultural heritage and the creative process is strategic. It works at all levels and includes all components of the production chain, integrating the creation, design, production, and communication. Fashion designers, along with their aesthetic canons, rediscover archetypes, values and imagination, but rethink them in an appropriate, concrete and creative way. The designers offer new visions and meanings, as they experience original processes and approaches. Furthermore, they introduce social, political and cultural issues into the design philosophy, apply new craft skills in the design process or even utilize music and youth culture into the heritage of brands. In this way, cultural heritage is rediscovered as a modern and contemporary design.

"Лицето на българщината": Националният събор за народно творчество в Копривщица и неговите медийни отражения

Author(s): Lozanka Peycheva,Lozanka Peycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2022

The article examines the National festival of folklore in Koprivshtitsa – a culmination of the assembly-singing movement – by looking for sustainable media representations of the folklore festivals, which has already been held for twelve editions (between 1965 and 2022). The mechanisms for organization and media coverage are sought in the chronological lines before and after 1989. The focus is on the discourses and presentation of the festival as a manifestation of collective and national identity, “the face of Bulgarianism”

"И българските евреи бяха спасени..." Погледи отвън и отвътре върху българската история

Author(s): Irina Nedeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2022

We publish a conversation of the journalist Irina Nedeva with Roumen Avramov, economist and historian, on the occasion of the Bulgarian translation of Nadège Ragaru’s book ‘Et les Juifs bulgares furent sauvés…’. Une histoire des savoirs sur la Shoah en Bulgarie’, Sciences Po. Les Presses, 2020) (“And the Bulgarian Jews were saved...” History of knowledge about the Holocaust in Bulgaria”). The conversation was broadcast on November 8, 2022 in the “Horizont do obed” ("Horizon by noon") program of the Bulgarian National Radio; the text published here is a transcription of it. The questions have been preserved, and in the answers Rumen Avramov has made some stylistic edits, as well as brief substantive additions and clarifications

Документалното ни кино на фокус

Author(s): Petia Alexandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2022

Научни форуми

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 45/2022

Data about scientific events in the field of the humanities in Bulgaria in the second half of 2022

Женско двугласно пеене от село Варвара (Съвременни процеси в традиционната практика)

Author(s): Petyo Krastev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

The article is the result of a field study in 2020 in the village of Varvara, Septemvri municipality, on the current state of women’s folk two-part singing. The ethnomusicological interpretation is made on the basis of a comparative analysis between theoretical studies on performance practices, an audio archive of the women’s vocal group at the National Culture Center “Peasant Awakening – 1927”, made in the early 1990s, and the most modern field materials from 2020. Passing through certain periods, the musical model becomes a village cultural value bequeathed from the past, which is preserved and safeguarded through certain forms of stage activity. Today, it is part of the intangible cultural heritage and ‘lives’ mainly through the community center and the practice of a certain generation.

XII Национален събор на народното творчество в Копривщица (5–7 август 2022 г.)

Author(s): Rosina Kokudeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

Events

Първи национален фолклорен събор, Драгиново 2022 г.

Author(s): Petyo Krastev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

Events

Между два свята: подкастингът като сливане на технологията с човешкото

Author(s): Victor Chulev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 14/2023

The present text, which is an edited excerpt from a master's thesis titled „The Video Archives Podcast as a Communicative Space“, seeks to roughly delineate the boundaries of the podcast space as a place where the technological and the human converge. By analyzing and comparing theories of podcast practices and communication theories before the advent of podcasting, the text attempts to overcome the opposition of novelty and tradition and concludes that the coexistence of man and media resembles not a war but rather a game of worlds.

Медийни системи и кризи: спирането на сигнала на програма "Хоризонт" на Българското национално радио на 13 септември 2019 г.

Author(s): Victoria Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 14/2023

This article examines the imperfections of the Bulgarian media system, which periodically manifest as media crises. The research method used is a case study. The case, which is described and placed in a media and political context, is related to the suspended broadcast of the "Horizon" program on the Bulgarian National Radio on September 13, 2019. The analysis is based on the documents collected in Vyara Angelova's book "#Who stopped BNR", normative acts issued by Bulgarian and European institutions, scientific and media publications on the subject. The conclusions reached by the research are that the media system in Bulgaria is in an unfinished process of transformation. A specific feature of the media environment is that partial elements characteristic of free societies are noticeable. But the factors that dominate bring the Bulgarian media system closer to the authoritarian model defined by Fred Siebert, Wilbur Schramm, and Theodore Peterson.

Защо народният празник Сурова е в Списъка на ЮНЕСКО? (Резултати от една анкета)

Author(s): Tsvetana Manova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The 2003 Convention and Its Implementation in Bulgaria