Идеологическите рамки на проблема „съвременност и фолклор” през 50-те – 70-те години на ХХ век (четейки Тодор Тодоров)
Ideological Framework of the Issue 'Modernity – Folklore' during the 1950s – 1970s (Reading Todor Todorov)

Summary/Abstract: Todor Todorov’s generation that took to scientific research in the late 1950s and the early 1960s faced a social situation where science was indoctrinated to a large extent. Compulsory grounding it on Marxist-Leninist ideology left its imprint on the works of the researchers. This article seeks to draw attention to some views, ideologically and politically inevitable in the period under consideration, and to trace out how they reflect on terminology of folkloric studies then and now. The article unveils some points concerning the ideological framework in the historical and sociological approaches to folklore in those decades of Socialism: the idea of folklore as an ‘art of working people’ (according to the thesis of Karl Marx of culture as formed in the very labour process); the idea of folklore as a manifestation of undifferentiated social consciousness (as a stage in the development of society according to Marxist philosophy); the emphasis on the utilitarian, applied functions of musical folklore (through the activity of production that sets the creative act) – ideologeme which hampers even nowadays the understanding of the functionality of music in traditional culture and neglects the matter of its religious aspects; the way of development of artistic consciousness (as a higher stage compared to undifferentiated consciousness) – a matter that is directly related to the existence of folklore in the period under consideration. Discussion dwells on some moments of evading of ideological restrictions in Todor Todorov’s works.

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