The Folk Music of Bulgaria a Selective Bibliography and Discography Katharine Lambaria LIS 511: Bibliography December 20, 2013
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The Folk Music of Bulgaria A Selective Bibliography and Discography Katharine Lambaria LIS 511: Bibliography December 20, 2013 Abstract This bibliography is a selective representation of items relating to traditional Bulgarian music, or Bulgarian folk music, that are located at the Music & Performing Arts Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It includes encyclopedia and dictionary entries, books, journal articles, and sound recordings in compact disc format. Text resources are arranged from general to specific, starting first with the encyclopedia entries followed by monographs and then journal articles. Compact discs are arranged alphabetically. In regards to the printed materials included, I have decided to arrange from general to specific because of the intent of this bibliography: to provide a guided reading list for or in place of a course on Bulgarian music. This bibliography is intended for University of Illinois students with an interest in Bulgarian musical culture. Items are in English and have an emphasis on traditional practices. There is more content within the library than what is presented here, including several more journal articles and a few more albums of Bulgarian wedding music. These items are not included because they are either not in English, repetitive, in a different format than CD or are outside the intended folk music scope of this bibliography. Materials spread a wide range of years as an attempt to give a thorough picture of how concepts changed over time. One may wish to consult previous editions of certain materials, such as the Grove Dictionary entry, to understand these changes. Bibliography Petrov, Stoyan, Magdalena Manolova, and Donna A. Buchanan. “Bulgaria.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd ed. 569-583. New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc., 2001. Call number: ML100 G76N382001 This dictionary entry briefly discusses Bulgarian art music but provides a more in-depth look at the traditional music practices. Topics including the national renaissance and development of music ethnography, characteristics of pre-socialist musical culture, urban musics, institutionalized neo-traditional music after 1930 and neo-traditional popular music are covered. The characteristics of pre-socialist musical culture section is divided into further subtopics and musical examples and images are included. There is a brief bibliography after the art music section and an extensive bibliography after traditional music that includes collections, books and articles, and recordings. Rice, Timothy. “Bulgaria.” In Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Volume 8: Europe. Edited by Timothy Rice, James Porter, and Chris Goertzen, 890-910. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000. Call number: ML100 G27 This academic reference work is an authoritative source for ethnomusicological information. The 10 volumes comprehensively cover the different musical practices of the world. Volume 8 focuses on Europe with an entry on Bulgaria. This entry provides brief country information and goes into detail about musical style and instruments, regional styles, movement and dance, song texts, traditional and contemporary contexts, popular and minority music, the history of music and the history of research on Bulgarian music. Koenig, Martin. Voices & Images from Bulgaria. Vashon Island: Barking Rooster Press, 2011. Call number: DR63.K64 2011 Martin Koenig’s beautiful work, Voices & Images from Bulgaria, aims to preserve the changing music and dance traditions of Bulgaria from forty years before. It includes stunning black and white photographs of rural villagers performing daily activities, such as music and dance, with annotations to accompany each image. All text is provided in both English and Bulgarian. A note and acknowledgements from the author are provided in addition to introductions by Lanny Silverman, the chief curator at the Chicago Cultural Center, and Dr. Anna Ilieva, Senior Dance Ethnologist at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Rice, Timothy. Music in Bulgaria: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Call number: ML252 R53M8 Part of the Global Music Series, Music in Bulgaria aims to achieve the main goals of being a useful educational text and thorough case study. It provides an overview of the tradition, suggests ways for individuals to interact with the unfamiliar tradition, places the tradition within a larger social context, and discusses how ethnomusicologists interact with this type of research. Glossaries of both Bulgarian and musical terms are included in addition to a reference list, index and recommended resources list. An accompanying CD of musical examples is also included. Krustev, Venelin. Bulgarian Music. Translated by Jean Patterson-Alexieva. Sofia: Balkan State Printing House, 1978. Call number: 781.74977 K 946 b:E Published in 1978, this work traces the history of Bulgarian music by focusing on the performing arts, amateur art, training, concert, publishing and teaching activity. Divided into four parts, it covers early Bulgaria prior to the current state and its early kingdoms, musical culture after the liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, music from the 1920s to 1944, and the period after the establishment of People’s Rule in Bulgaria. Images are found throughout the text. This work lacks a bibliography and index. Litova-Nikolova, Lydia. Bulgarian Folk Music. Sofia: Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, 2004. Call number: ML3602 L58B8 Bulgarian Folk Music is divided into two sections, the first focusing on musical-folklore dialectology and the second on the history of the Bulgarian musical folkloristics. This work focuses on the different musical-folklore styles that are dependent upon the region and its history. Music is discussed in its relation to the folklore traditions. Musical examples and lyrics are included throughout the text in addition to a bibliography, list of abbreviations used, and index to part one. Kremenliev, Boris A. Bulgarian-Macedonian Folk Music. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1952. Call number: 780.9497 K88b cop.2 This work, which claims to be the first English study on the topic of Bulgarian folk music, provides the readers with a historic background and information on the meter, melody, structure, type and instruments that create Bulgarian music. The author makes no distinction between Bulgarian and Macedonian music, as he does not see an ethnological difference between the two and emphasis is placed on folk music and folklore. A bibliography, index, and index of song titles are included. Buchanan, Donna A. Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Call number: ML3918.F65 B83 Donna A. Buchanan’s Performing Democracy portrays Bulgarian music as a dynamic and malleable tradition. She places traditional musical practices within the transitioning political landscape of the country and emphasizes music as a means of creating and portraying a national identity. A glossary of Bulgarian terms is included in addition to an index and extensive discography and reference lists. An accompanying CD is provided consisting of musical examples referenced throughout the work. Rice, Timothy. May It Fill Your Soul: Experiencing Bulgarian Music. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. Call number: ML3602 R52M2 Timothy Rice’s 370-page monograph covers the topic of Bulgarian music by placing it in the context of the country’s political history and discussing the manner in which he encountered it and how others acquire, live, change, continue, and interpret the tradition through the political changes. Rice uses stories of the Varimezov family, a family of musical performers, to portray his ideas. A glossary, notes, reference list, and index are included in addition to an accompanying CD of musical examples. Peycheva, Lozanka and Ventsislav Dimov. The Zurna Tradition in Southwest Bulgaria. Sofia: Zvezdan, 2002. Call number: ML3602 P45Z8 The contents of this monograph are in Bulgarian and then translated into English at the back with 32 pages of images separating the two sections. The work focuses on the zurna music performed by Roma zurnacies in southwest Bulgaria, the main region where this music has been a continuing and developing tradition. The chapters focus on the instrument, performer, musical style, contexts for performance, and symbolism of zurnaci music. Appendixes at the end contain notated music examples, list of sources, bibliography, list of CD excerpts, and a table of contents. Buchanan, Donna A. “Metaphors of Power, Metaphors of Truth: The Politics of Music Professionalism in Bulgarian Folk Orchestras.” Ethnomusicology Vol. 39, No. 3 (1995): 381-416. Call number: 784.405 ET The title of this article accurately describes its contents. In “Metaphors of Power, Metaphors of Truth,” Buchanan discusses the manner in which folk music was professionalized during communist rule in Bulgaria, a process that was a social, political and cultural interaction of individual musicians. Kaufman, Nikolay. “Part-Singing in Bulgarian Folk Music.” Journal of the International Folk Music Council Vol. 15 (1963): 48-49. Call number: 784.4 IN7J More musically theoretical than other items in this bibliography, Nikolay Kaufman’s brief paper presents the different styles of part-singing in four regions of Bulgaria: the Pirina region, the region to the center of western Bulgaria, and the Velingrad and Ihktiman Pizardjik regions.