Twórczość Marty Ptaszyńskiej a styl późny XX-wiecznej moderny

Author(s): Anna Granat-Janki / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The music of Marta Ptaszyńska clearly reflects the characteristic features of late modernism, also called post-modernity. It is possible to observe in her music an original combination of the traditional and the avant-garde, whose mutual relationship changed in the particular periods of her artistic activity. The connections with tradition are accentuated through the use of quotations, allusions and references, which allows for a more intertextual reading of her music. Ptaszyńska’s compositions often blur the boundaries between the elite and the egalitarian. The composer imitates street music and incorporates the jazz idiom into her works. Her music always aims at a multimedia approach, thus constituting a 20th-centuryequivalent to the ancient syncretic art. It is also possible to notice a turn in the directionof the religious culture, as well as the presence of humanist themes. Ptaszyńska’s worksperfectly illustrate how the music of different cultures and nations can intermingle, as itsignifies the influence of globalisation and spatial mobility of the composer. The constantcontact with the Polish culture, alongside the experience of different cultures—American,Asian, African—influence the emergence of the composer’s transcultural identity.

Postsekularyzm – styl późny? Johna D. Caputo teologia wydarzenia

Author(s): Marta Zając / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents selected aspects of John D. Caputo’s theology of the event as an example of a certain “unsubstantiality”, i.e. decline of postsecularism and—in a broader sense— postmodernism. The author pays particular attention to the way in which Caputo presents the nature of the paradox as a manifestation of, on the one hand, the Deleuzian event, and, on the other hand, the Kingdom of God. Moreover, the author comments upon differentinterpretations of the biblical world seen as the kingdom of paradox, removed from eachother in time and the form of the argument, in order to refute the claim that the particularweakness of Caputo’s theory is nothing else but a daring rejection of classical theology.Thus, she alludes frequently to Gilbert K. Chesterton and Paul Ricoeur, and follows thetrail of references to the substance which gives abstractions concrete form. Chestertonreferred to the biblical world as glass-like, “made of glass”, while Ricoeur, pondering onthe nature of God’s existence in relation to the man, used the metaphor of a mountain pass,full of peaks and chasms, akin to the image of pulsing flames. Caputo, however, situatesthe same mystery at the very beginning and at the very end of his argument—the faintand phantasmal quasi-meaning, which cannot penetrate the language to enter the actualreality—the event.

Liverpool wielkomiejski, Liverpool hiperboliczny. Zestawienie dwudziestowiecznej metropolii z jej nowomilenijnym „odrodzeniem miejskim”

Author(s): Peter Martyn / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Descendants of immigrants from within the British Isles (including Ireland) and innumerable parts of the planet, Liverpudlians (known more typically as Scousers) faced rapidly encroaching economic decline that resulted from the essential dead-end the post-World-War-Two British welfare state had been reduced to by the mid- to late-1970s. Supposedly aimed at bringing about rapid social as well as economic transition, the aggressive politics of monetarism and deindustrialisation, introduced during the 1980s under the so-called New Right, provoked regional polarisation and thus deteriorating standards of living throughout large parts of the country; with the one, overriding exception of the state capital and its “Home Counties”. In Liverpool, the recession verged on terminal crisis. A furious media campaign was directed against local trade unionists and the policies of MilitantTendency (which briefly enjoyed wide support after taking control of the city council),while seeking to demonise the fan base of the city’s two celebrated football teams; aboveall in the wake of the Hillborough disaster on 15th April, 1989. Liverpool was thus madethe urban pariah of Thatcherite Britain. The piecemeal metamorphosis under way sincethe early-2000s in central and selected inner-city neighbourhoods may be regarded withcautions optimism; not least, because a significant proportion of Scouser-Liverpudliansdraw considerable satisfaction from the altering appearance of and feel to their city, whosepublic image—both nationally and internationally—appears as high now as it was in the1960s. Be that as it may, in terms of its spatial reach and, furthermore, social impact, thislimited transformation requires genuine analysis based on the contradistinction between,on the one hand, the consoling (for some) selection of town-planning solutions, often wellconceived new construction, urban-architectural furnishings, etc. and, on the other, thetragicomic combination (so very typical of the times we live in) of “luxury apartments”, newbusiness district, “state-of-the-art” shopping centres like Liverpool One and suchlike. Theblatant and often disturbing hyperbole applied to the so-called urban rebirth supposedlyoccurring in the city and its greater urban area of Merseyside includes such terms of overstatement and puffery as: “urban regeneration company”, “economic boosterism”, “world-class research portfolio”, “pump priming”, “jobless growth”, “the most business friendly, socially inclusive European Renaissance City”, “Urban Splash” (“creative” developers), “statement making company”, “bringing forward the city’s global/internationalisation agenda”, “niche urban living life style”, “Livercool”, “the place where tradition meets cutting edge”, “decanted, recanted, de-recanted, re-recanted” (community—sic!), and so on… These and other semantic examples of how the Scousers might in actual fact be witnessing the selling of their own city down the river need to be confronted with the very real spectre of continued urban dilapidation combined with social distress throughout large parts of the inner city, as well as numerous outer-urban housing estates that further await demolition, renovation-cum-“regeneration” or, simply, a prolonged state of ruination.

Политическите послания в турските сериали по българските телевизии и "Нетфликс"

Author(s): Zhana Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 10/2021

The text presents the main conclusions based on the study of the political messages in the Turkish series broadcasted on Bulgarian television and on Netflix. The main political messages in the series, showed on Bulgarian television, are the responsibility for decisions, connect with the life of a woman and a child. Among the important political topics are: migration, education abroad and returning home, conflicts between rich and poor.

Другият списък: проучване на „добри практики за опазване“ и още добри идеи

Author(s): Michelle L. Stefano / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

As UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage turns twenty, the article focuses on its primary aim of safeguarding people’s living cultural traditions, practices, and expressions at the local level. Safeguarding measures are promoted throughout the Convention and related texts, but it is arguably the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices through which actual approaches are presented as being put to the test. The article uses the Register as a launchpad for examining community-based approaches to safeguarding ICH, and distilling “good” considerations for building ethical and equitable collaborations – from the first steps of initiatives to over the long term.

Прилагане на Конвенция 2003 в читалищата – нематериално културно наследство и архиви

Author(s): Stela Nenova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The 2003 Convention and Its Implementation in Bulgaria

Читалищата и опазването на нематериалното културно наследство в градска среда (Проект „Образи и смисъл“ на Народно читалище „Отец Паисий – 1893“, гр. Велинград)

Author(s): Silvena Bayrakova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The 2003 Convention and Its Implementation in Bulgaria

Европейска асоциация на фолклорните фестивали – ЕАФФ

Author(s): Kaloyan Nikolov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The 2003 Convention and Its Implementation in Bulgaria

Приносът на Националния музей на Корея за опазването на нематериалното културно наследство

Author(s): Miglena Ivanova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

Events

The Manufactory of Old French Psalters.

Author(s): Chapel Alessia,Vladimir Agrigoroaei / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2023

Pentru a înțelege mai bine relațiile intertextuale dintre psaltirile franceze medievale, întoarcerea la o sursă fundamentală precum Psaltirea de la Oxford (manuscrisul Oxford, Biblioteca Bodleiană, Douce 320) este esențială. Astfel, unul dintre scopurile acestui articol este cel de a pune bazele unui studiu al modificărilor de natură textuală reprezentate de numeroase ștersături care reflectă procesul de redactare și spun povestea acestui manuscris. Deoarece studiul este de amploare, a fost necesară segmentarea lui în mai multe publicații. În această primă etapă, după o introducere care analizează relațiile manuscrisului Douce 320 cu alte manuscrise din familia sa (de exemplu, Londra, British Library, Arundel MS 230), autorii discută ștersăturile legate de fluctuația vocalelor și diftongilor în ortografia anumitor cuvinte. Analiza tratamentului dentalelor finale ocupă apoi secțiuni referitoare la anumite forme verbale ale modurilor indicativ, conjunctiv și participiu. Acestea sunt completate de studii privind ștergerea unui -e- interconsonantic în formele de viitor și oscilarea între -r- și dublu -rr- în formele de viitor ale verbului estre. În cele ce urmează, ștersăturile și/sau corecturile legate de dentale permit de asemenea să fie abordată problema declinării, nu numai în cazul participiilor, ci și a mai multor substantive și adjective. Cercetarea se concentrează apoi pe studii de caz: ștergerea unui –n final în enfer(n), iur(n) și car(n); ezitările scribului legate de ortografia conjuncției car; înlocuirea frecventă a lui q cu c în cuvântul quer/cuer; ezitarea între folosirea conjuncției mais sau a conjuncției acertes; precum și multiplele opțiuni de a traduce sufixul latin –tio. O paranteză deschisă cu privire la anumite adăugiri și/sau corecturi sugerează posibilitatea ca manuscrisul Douce 320 să nu fie o traducere autografă a Psaltirii St. Albans (păstrată la Hildesheim, Dombibliothek, St. Godehard 1). Scribul ar fi folosit mai degrabă o sursă latină cu o glosă vernaculară interliniară. Această deducție pare să fie confirmată și de utilizarea unei liniuțe de unire, pe care copistul o folosește pentru a compensa erori probabile de transcriere. Ipoteza aceasta este susținută mai ales de cercetarea asupra câtorva „ștersături lungi”. Ele par a privi unități de transcriere a căror modificare este legată de structura și interconectarea textuală cu o sursă care prezintă atât un text latin, cât și o glosă interliniară. În încheierea acestei părți, după ce au prezentat, spre comparație, exemple preluate din Psaltirea Winchester și Psaltirea Arundel, autorii propun reconstituirea unui segment de text care ar putea fi mai aproape de sursa manuscrisului Douce 320. Articolul se încheie cu o comparație cu precedentele în limba engleză veche și cu o transcriere a fragmentelor de la Maidstone, Centrul și Biblioteca de Istorie Kent, Fa/Z1 (fragmentul Faversham i). Continuarea cercetării este prevăzută pentru următorul număr al revistei Museikon.

Echoes

Author(s): / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2023

Св. Георги в грузински културен контекст

Author(s): Nino Abakelia / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

The article briefly evaluates the vast literature relating to the worship of St. George in Georgia and draws on the ethnographic data collected by the author in the years 1977 to 1987. It explores the worship of St George in the Caucasus Georgia both in the past and present. Consequently, it discusses such categories as religious practice, belonging to the parish and territory, identity and, sharing holy places, epithets of the Saint, hybrid cults, etc. The materials used are: written historical sources, ethnographic data attested in the writings of Christian Missionaries (Christopher Castelli, Jean Chardin, Arcangelo Lamberti, etc.), the ethnographic data gathered (during 2018-19) among Internally displaced persons, and contemporary emic and etic researches undertaken by anthropologists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The argument of the present contribution is based upon a series of ethnographic observances that present traditional feasts of the saint and their transformations in the light of current political processes. Accordingly, detailed ethnographic field data and observations are contextualized in time and space, using the explorations and studies of anthropologists and historians. The article tries to show how once traditional Christian site (lieux de mémoire in Pierre Nora’s sense) with its real environment and with is firm identity is deterritorialized and transformed into a shared place of mixed and ambiguous pilgrimage place through the political processes and hybridization.

Религиозност в трансформация: народни и нормативни религиозни практики в Източна Грузия

Author(s): Ketevan Khutsishvili / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

Georgian everyday life is highly tied up with the rich religious traditions that have been developed as a result of the centuries-long synthesis of pre-Christian and Christian practices and worldviews. The Soviet period caused the fragmentation of the traditional religious knowledge and the practice moved to the household level and was paganized. In the post-Soviet period, the burst of religious sentiments and search for identity increased the involvement of big masses to religious practices. The transformations were accompanied by a process of individualization of religion, which has led to a change of forms of religiosity. Based on the ethnographic data of East Georgia, the article discusses the correlation of the normative, vernacular and resistant forms of religiosity. Historical-comparative and parallel analyses are used to research two examples of religious practice: Lomisoba and Berikaoba. Lomisoba is analyzed as an example of hybrid, massive, collective holiday. Berikaoba is more local, not connected to a sacred site, performative festival. It is argued that the contemporary processes are having an impact on the religiosity and the religiosity of certain groups is trying to be defined in new forms. All the old and new forms of religiosity are explicitly displayed and played out in contemporary Georgia. At the same time there are some hidden, or rather implicit practices.

Шедьовърът на Руставели – ренесансова поема или средновековен роман?

Author(s): Yordan Lyutskanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

The article introduces to the late medieval romance in verse Vepkhistq’aosani by Shota Rustaveli – the central artefact in Georgian cultural self-awareness and the top item of ‘high’ Georgian cultural export. It briefly presents its narrative content, indicating the correlation of two plot-lines (initially through enframing, after some point though horizontal interlacing). It briefly introduces to the main fluctuations and 20th-century tendency in translating the work’s title, interpreting the fluctuations as indicative of aesthetic differences, and the tendency as an indication of the ‘cultural market’ success of the Soviet-Georgian (in its ideological and aesthetical basis –a Stalinist and socialist-realist) image of Rustaveli’s masterpiece. It presents two influential to dominant claims of Georgian Rustvelology – that the work is a poema (and not a novel/romance) and that it displays, at least partially, Renaissance outlook and poetics, – considering these claims as tools (1) of Soviet “Culture Two” to allot a proper place to Georgian nation within the alternative modernity of the USSR and its premodern background-under-construction, and (2) of Soviet-Georgian cultural nationalism to define a usable past in post-Soviet conditions; and (3) as beliefs. It revitalises the option to contextualise the work of Rustaveli (and, indirectly, Georgian cultural identity) in non-Eurocentric terms, providing some factographic and theoretic clues from the field of macrohistory (J. Abu-Lughod et al.) and a methodological one from sociology of arts (P. Bourdieu).

Имиграцията и „градината като работилница“: българските градинари в Унгария в края на XIX и началото на XX век

Author(s): Nikolai Vukov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

The article presents the specific dimensions of the “garden as a workshop” developed by the Bulgarian immigrant gardeners in Hungary at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The importance of various factors (availability of land, water resources and urban markets, etc.) is outlined. These influenced the arrival and settlement of gardeners in the Habsburg Empire, but also – with the new approaches to cultivating the land and placing the produce – testify to a specific process of modernization in theterrain of agriculture. The article highlights the significant role of Bulgarian gardeners in this process, thanks to which they could not only establish themselves and respond to the new social demands, but also laid the foundations for their long-term presence and interaction with Hungarian society.

Гурбетчийското градинарство като локално наследство: българо-унгарски паралели върху процесите на оценностяване. По примери от селата Поликраище и Драганово. Част 1

Author(s): Valentin Voskresenski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

The article examines, from a historical and contemporary perspective, the processes of valorizing diaspora gardening as local heritage in two significant "gardener villages": Polikraishte and Draganovo (within the municipality of Gorna Oryahovitsa). Based on field studies conducted in Bulgaria and Hungary, the research describes journeys to and from ancestral places, emphasizing their significance and functions in constructing local heritage. The text explores interpretations of diaspora gardening within the settlement's history. In the study, the valorization of gardening as local heritage in Bulgaria is considered a means of establishing connections between the two countries and an integral part of constructing the cultural memory and identity of the Bulgarian community in Hungary.

Българските градинари в Будапеща през XXI век

Author(s): Mariyanka Borisova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

The purpose of the research is to outline the specifics of Bulgarian gardeners and Bulgarian horticulture in Budapest in the first quarter of the 21 century by means of two examples.Methods of observation, biographical approach, and free and semi-structured interviews are applied. The relationship between Bulgarian horticulture and cultural heritage is analyzed.The study is the result of the author’s participation in a project “Migrations. Modernities, and Intercultural Mediation – Bulgarian Immigrant Groups to Hungary in late 19th and early 20th c. and their Impact on the Social and Cultural Life of the Host Society”.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Author(s): Rossen Malchev,Konstantin Rangochev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 23/2024

Free to hate. Ключово изследване на Мартин Маринос за отношението между медиите и десния популизъм в България

Author(s): Orlin Spassov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 16/2024

This review presents Martin Marinos's Free to Hate: How Media Liberalization Enabled Right-Wing Populism in Post-1989 Bulgaria (University of Illinois Press, 2023). Marinos's in-depth analysis reveals the close link between the media and the rise of right-wing populism in post-socialist Bulgaria. Marinos focuses on the connections between phenomena such as neoliberalism, racism, populism, and media commercialization.

Международната научна конференция „Поп-култура, поп-политика: дигиталният обрат“, посветена на проф. Ивайло Дичев

Author(s): Niya Neykova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 16/2024

44 scientists participated in the International Scientific Conference dedicated to Prof. Ivaylo Dichev, on the topic: Pop-culture, Pop-politics: The Digital Turn. Interdisciplinary Analyses Of The Intersectionality Between Media, Cultures And Politics. The conference concludes the research project "Pop-culture, pop-politics: The digital turn. Interdisciplinary analyses of the intersection between media, cultures and politics" of the Sofia University. The conference was implemented with the help of the Cultural Studies Network, the journal "Seminar_BG", the Department of "Radio and Television" of the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Department of "History and Theory of Culture" at the Faculty of Philosophy, together with scientists from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.