От възрожденската чалгия към съвременните сватбарски оркестри
From National Revival Period Music Bands to Modern Wedding Orchestras

Summary/Abstract: The author tries to determine the place of newly born instrumental music professionalism during the National Revival Period and to analyse it in the context of the Bulgarian variant of the all-Balkan urban culture. That level of the Balkan culture has functioned as a specific stepping-stone towards its equalization with the culture of Old Europe in the process of overcoming the ethnical and national prejudices in the Balkan countries. The article studies the development of these orchestras after the Liberation from the Turkish yoke. It analyses the interactions between these orchestras and the newly created brass-bands just after the Liberation. The orchestras’ specific evolution during the last 30-40 years is estimated as an objective and subjective result of different influences, prohibitions and restrictions. The last 5-6 years marked a new revival of the development of modern bands. Should we canonize, or, standardize them, or should we just observe their precipitated consolidation on Balkan, European and world-wide level?

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