Разнообразие в телевизионните програми на обществените телевизии в държавите от Западните Балкани

Author(s): Desislava Sotirova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 10/2021

The dual broadcasting system in the six Western Balkan countries puts challenges but also creates opportunities to increase the diversity of the TV program. The paper aims to answer the question whether there is a variety of television content provided by the public broadcasters to the audiences in the Western Balkans. Their public mission obliges them to provide access to programs on diverse topics for all target audiences, including ethnic minorities and people with disabilities.

Към историята на Българското радио като културна сила: върху ранната музикална журналистика - музикално просветителство и приложна народоука

Author(s): Ventsislav Dimov,Ventsislav Dimov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 10/2021

The study presents the contributions of Raina Katsarova (1901-1984) - one of the pioneers in establishing the Bulgarian traditional music in the first specializated music programs on Rodno Radio and Radio Sofia. It presents a researcher with experience in field work and thousands of recordings of traditional music, with publications of song collections and academic works, but also a citizen, cultural figure, public activist, media figure. The activities of Raina Katsarova as an educator, music journalist and media critic are discussed; her talks and song tales on the radio; her activities in defense of faith and rituals in the media of totalitarian Bulgaria; her role in publicizing Bulgarian traditional music on air around the world as an ambassador of Bulgarian culture, folklore and science. It is concluded that the traces of her activity in the media cover the history of Bulgarian radio, understood in the middle of the twentieth century as a public good and cultural force. It is clear to everyone that music on the radio matters. Raina Katsarova's radio appearances show how ethnomusicology is also important in and for radio.

Лиляна Деянова и градините на паметта

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

In the end of September 2021 one of the celebrations of the academic community took place – colleagues and friends congratulated prof. Lilyana Deyanova with the publishing of the anniversary anthology ‘Time and Memory’. Compilers and organizers of the academic celebration are Maya Grekova, Petya Kabakchieva, Momchil Hristov, Milena Yakimova.

Proclaiming the Eucharist on Communist Stadiums? The Multiple Meanings of the Phoenix Concept-Album Cantafabule (An Experiment in Cultural History)

Author(s): Vladimir Agrigoroaei / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2021

Philologists and medievalists rarely deal with the subject of contemporary Pop-Rock or Folk music. When they do it, they usually fall prey to a certain form of medievalism. The current section of Museikon follows a completely different approach. The pairing of interviews with memoirs and the introduction shaped in the form of an actual scientific study have the sole purpose of launching an experiment in the history of culture. The case study is a 1976 album of the Romanian Rock group Phoenix. The state owned record company Electrecord made a mistake, releasing it as Cantofabule, even though its correct title was Cantafabule or Bestiar. It had traditional- and medieval inspired lyrics, but most of all, it was the result of artistic synergy. A collective work of sorts, much in the manner of the medieval manuscripts of old.

Cantafabule, Drawings Made Flesh. A Tale in Search of a Lost Cover

Author(s): Elisabeth Lili Ochsenfeld / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2021

Born in 1951 in Timișoara, Elisabeth Ochsenfeld lives today between Heidelberg (de), Frankfurt am Main (de) and Wolfsberg / Gărâna (ro). She graduated the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Timișoara, in the class of Professor Leon Vreme (1973); she directed the Art Group—Studio 35 in Timișoara(1974-1980) and has had, from 1973 to date, several exhibitions of painting, drawing, mixed media, photography, and illustrations, being also the curator of a large number of exhibitions and artistic events. In 1975 she finalized the drawings for the cover of the double LP Phoenix Cantafabule based on an idea of Valeriu Sepi. She immigrated to Germany in 1986 and soon thereafter became a graphic artist for the project Rock Carvings and Inscriptions along the Karakorum Highway at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1987-2012). Her works are displayed in galleries, museums and private collections across Germany, Romania, England, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Austria, Ukraine, Hungary, Belgium, Israel, Greece, Sweden, Pakistan, Finland, South Korea, the USA, and Canada. She is the founder of Arthouse Wolfsberg / Gărâna and a member of the Association of Professional Artists in Germany, the International Women’s Cultural Federation, Freeinterartists, and Contemporanii.

Une expérience joycienne radicale en roumain

Author(s): Andrei Ujică / Language(s): Romanian,French Issue: 5/2021

Andrei Ujică est né à Timişoara en 1951. Il a étudié les lettres modernes à l’Université de Timişoara avant de poursuivre ses études à Bucarest puis à Heidelberg. Depuis 1968, il publiedes textes en prose. Il a été impliqué dans la création desdeux lp du groupe Phoenix – Mugur de fluier (‘Bourgeon deflûte’, 1974) et Cantafabule (‘Chantefables’, 1976). En 1981, ila immigré en Allemagne. À partir de 1990, il s’oriente vers lecinéma et codirige avec Harun Farocki Videogramme einer Revolution (‘Vidéogrammes d’une révolution’, 1992) et Kameraund Wirklichkeit (‘Caméra et réalité’, 1992) – deux filmssur la révolution roumaine de 1989. Out of the Present (1995) raconte l’histoire du cosmonaute Sergueï Krikalev, qui apassé dix mois à bord de la station spatiale Mir, alors que surterre, l’Union soviétique cessait d’exister. Suivent le court métrage2 Pasolini (2000) et le long métrage Unknown Quantity(2005). Depuis 2001, il est professeur à l’Université de Karlsruhe.Il a fondé le ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien) Filminstitut.‘L’Autobiographie de Nicolae Ceauşescu’ (2010), présentéeen sélection officielle à Cannes, est un long métrage demontage où les images d’archive sont présentées selon la perspective du dictateur. Actuellement, il prépare un film partiellementbasé sur des images d’archive et consacré auxévénements des 15 août 1965, date du célèbre concert des Beatles sur Shea Stadium à New York

The Musician (Zakir/ Imam Cafer) in the Culture of the Alevi and Bektashi from the Region of Kardzhali

Author(s): Rumyana Margaritova / Language(s): English Issue: Special 2/2020

The article studies the role of the musician in Alevi-Bektashi culture in the region of Kardzhali, Southern Bulgaria. The musician in that culture performs simultaneously religious, social and artistic roles. He is a figure whose qualities allow the researcher to associate him with the cultural type of the epic musician. His non-professional but specialized activity is presented from an insider’s viewpoint detailing the specific characteristics of that activity, the approaches applied in the process of training in it, through the qualitative evaluation of the musicians and the differences in their performance manners. The author presents the biographical trajectory and the performance style of a contemporary young Bektashi musician from the region in order to depict his portrait. The interaction between his outstanding talent and his strong religious devotion define his complex development as a musician and a member of the Heterodox Muslim community.

ИЛЮСТРАЦИИ

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 19/2021

ИЛЮСТРАЦИИ

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 20/2021

Потребяване на култура онлайн

Author(s): Ivaylo Ditchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 11/2022

The digital world has incorporated all previous forms of communication: today we read online, listen to music, visit virtual museums and so on. But does cultural consumption via the new meta-media remain the same? The following observations are the result of a seminar with students of cultural studies. I am discussing the changes in the experiencing of the high 'culture of the soul' (Cicero), not everyday digital practices.

Рецензия на „Срещу човешкото: антиутопичният жанр в литературата на XX век“

Author(s): Alexander Popov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 11/2022

Chavdar Parushev’s monograph is a study of the literary genre of anti-utopia, situating the latter in a complex web of mutual determination together with the genres of utopia, science fiction and satire. The central analytical instrument developed in this study is the so-called ‘Plato’s lens’ which makes it possible to center thought about these genres around the relation between subject and state. Thus the development in time of new forms and technologies for relating subject and state leads to new developments in the anti-utopian genre, which becomes a way to think about the crises of producing human meaning. The monograph traces many crises of this kind, including examples from history which have overtaken fiction. It thus demonstrates the important uses of anti-utopia, in times of accelerating change in what it means to be human.

Книги 2021 – 2022

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year

Музикални прояви в религиозната практика на турци сунити от Южна България

Author(s): Behrin Shopova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

This contribution explores the music performance during the reading of a barely known and insufficiently studied life of the Prophet Muhammad, İpsala'lı Ebu'l-Hayr Mevlidi, better known as Mustafa Mevlidi. That life is used in the Mevlid rituals in the region of Krumovgrad and in some villages near the town of Haskovo. In order to present in fullness the specific local characteristics of the music connected to religious practice in the studied region, the author describes in detail the peculiarities of the music in the cami practice. The main characteristics of the ritual are delineated: its structure, the occasions on which it takes place, and the way of performing it. In the course of analysis of the musical material, which has been recorded in the region of Krumovgrad, the author also adds musical examples from the Mevlid ritual among Sunni Turks from other parts of Bulgaria. The main fieldwork material utilized in the study has been personally collected by the author between 2010 and 2021.

Милковица през погледа на Зоя Микова

Author(s): Rada Slavinska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2022

Book review

Периодика 2022 – 2023

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

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

Превъплъщения на словото, прояви на фолклорното. Юбилеен сборник в чест на доц. д-р Стоянка Бояджиева. Съст. и ред. Вихра Баева, Валентина Ганева-Райчева, Вихра Барова, Мариянка Борисова, Николай Вуков.

Author(s): Stanoy Stanoev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2022

Book review

По дигиталните следи на (не)определимото смешно в ефир: странният случай на Божан Петров

Author(s): Lora Tarkoleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 14/2023

The text explores the digital and documental traces of the journalist Bojan Petrov's on-air legacy, mainly left by his satirical column Fatherland Radio Review. The review was last broadcast on the Politically INcorrect show on the Horizont channel, BNR. There the review was broadcast 7 times from the creation of the programme until the death of its author, but it has a background in previous similar programmes.The analysis traces the problems of the genre definition of fun. Despite the immutable structure of the column and the original approach of the author, inexplicably different interpretations of Petrov's satire lead to its neglect and disappearance.

За Конвенцията

Author(s): Dina Koleva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The 2003 Convention and Its Implementation in Bulgaria

Книги 2023

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 47/2023

Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year.

Contemporary Representations of Ktetors in Romanian Churches. A Debate (Part 1)

Author(s): Ana Dumitran,Laura Jiga Iliescu,Vladimir Agrigoroaei,Luiza Zamora / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2023

The Histories and Film Festival in Râşnov (FFIR—Festiva-lul de Film și Istorii la Râşnov) held its fifteenth edition from 18 to 27 August 2023. ‘Radicalisation’ was the main theme of the festival, namely the fact that “our society seems less and less open to balanced dialogue; everyone defends and imposes their own truth and nuances dis-appear.” Museikon organised a debate on the topic ‘Con-temporary votive depictions—from Stephen the Great to the ktetors of our days’ (Tablouri votive contemporane – de la Ștefan cel Mare la ctitorii de azi) in the Old Church of Râşnov (dedicated to Saint Nicholas), on Wednesday 23 August 2023.