May it fill your soul : experiencing Bulgarian music
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May it fill your soul : experiencing Bulgarian music
（Chicago studies in ethnomusicology）
University of Chicago Press, c1994
- : pbk
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Includes discography (p. 347), bibliographical references (p. 349-357), and index
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ISBN 9780226711218
Description
This ethnography documents and interprets the history of folk music, song and dance in Bulgaria over a 70-year period of dramatic change. From 1920 to 1989, Bulgaria changed from a nearly medieval village society to a Stalinist-planned industrial economy to a mix of capitalist and socialist markets and cultures. In the context of this history, Rice brings Bulgarian folk music to life by focusing on the biography of the Varimezov family, including the musician Kostadin and his wife Todora, a singer. Combining interviews with his own experiences of learning how to play, sing and dance Bulgarian folk music, Rice presents a detailed account of traditional, aural learning processes in the ethnomusicological literature. Using a combination of traditionally dichotomous musicological and ethnographic approaches, Rice tells the story of how individual musicians learned their tradition, how they lived it during the pre-Communist era of family farming, how the tradition changed with industrialization brought under Communism, and finally, how it flourished and evolved in the recent, unstable political climate.
This work - complete with a compact disc and musical examples - contributes not only to ethnomusicological theory and method, but also to our understanding of Slavic folklore, Eastern European anthropology and cultural processes in Socialist states.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Musical Excerpts on the Compact Disc Note on Transliteration Acknowledgments 1: Dancing in the Scholar's World 2: First Impressions 3: Social Processes of Music Learning 4: Cognitive Processes in Music Learning 5: Five Perspectives on Musical Experience 6: Music, Song, and Dance as Seasonal Experience 7: The New Society and Its Music 8: Reception and Teaching of the New Tradition 9: Challenging the Tradition 10: Gaidari: The Next Generation 11: Kostadin and Todora at Home 12: Truth and Music Glossary Notes Discography Bibliography Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226711225
Description
This ethnography documents and interprets the history of folk music, song and dance in Bulgaria over a 70-year period of dramatic change. From 1920 to 1989, Bulgaria changed from a nearly medieval village society to a Stalinist-planned industrial economy to a mix of capitalist and socialist markets and cultures. In the context of this history, Rice brings Bulgarian folk music to life by focusing on the biography of the Varimezov family, including the musician Kostadin and his wife Todora, a singer. Combining interviews with his own experiences of learning how to play, sing and dance Bulgarian folk music, Rice presents a detailed account of traditional, aural learning processes in the ethnomusicological literature. Using a combination of traditionally dichotomous musicological and ethnographic approaches, Rice tells the story of how individual musicians learned their tradition, how they lived it during the pre-Communist era of family farming, how the tradition changed with industrialization brought under Communism, and finally, how it flourished and evolved in the recent, unstable political climate.
This work - complete with a compact disc and musical examples - contributes not only to ethnomusicological theory and method, but also to our understanding of Slavic folklore, Eastern European anthropology and cultural processes in Socialist states.
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