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[email protected] THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC SLAVI TRIFONOV AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF NATIONALISM: POPULAR CULTURE, POPULAR MUSIC, AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY IN POSTSOCIALIST BULGARIA, 1990- 2005 By PLAMENA KOURTOVA A dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2012 Plamena Kourtova defended this dissertation on March 14 2012. The members of the supervisory committee were: Michael B.Bakan Professor Directing Dissertation Robert Romanchuk University Representative Frank Gunderson Committee Member Michael Uzendoski Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members, and certifies that the dissertation has been approved in accordance with university requirements. ii To my mom and dad. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my dissertation committee, Michael B.Bakan, Frank Gunderson, Michael Uzendoski, and Robert Romanchuk, for their critical commentary and advice. Thanks to your contributions and suggestions this project took on a more definitive shape during my years of study as a doctoral student at Florida State University. Multiple individuals were involved in and contributed to the fieldwork phase of this dissertation. While a number of them have preferred to remain anonymous, I extend my deepest gratification to Vera, Dika, Rada, Margarita, Nikolai, Svetlana, Elena, Decho, Raina, Boriana, Veni, Martin, and the students at the National Academy for Music and Dance in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.