Music and Dance Practices at the National Folklore Festival “Koprivshtitsa 2025”: Scholarly Reflections Cover Image
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Музикални и танцови практики на Националния събор на народното творчество „Копривщица 2025“: изследователски рефлексии
Music and Dance Practices at the National Folklore Festival “Koprivshtitsa 2025”: Scholarly Reflections

Author(s): Petyo Krastev
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Museology & Heritage Studies, Customs / Folklore, Music, Library and Information Science, Preservation, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: National Folklore Festival “Koprivshtitsa”; group singing; instrumental accompaniment; music and dance exemplars

Summary/Abstract: This article presents an individual research perspective resulting from observations of music and dance practices showcased at the National Folklore Festival “Koprivshtitsa 2025”. The analysis is informed by the theoretical achievements of ethnomusicology, combined with the author’s own field research on traditional models of music-making and their contemporary modifications as presented on the festival stages. The discussion focuses on several key aspects: group singing, specific characteristics of instrumental accompaniment, and music-and-dance examples within the context of the festival stage. The performers’ skills, together with their perceptions of how the folklore pieces should sound and appear today, are reshaping the parameters of norms that have become established and consolidated over time.

  • Issue Year: LI/2025
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 423-442
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Bulgarian
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