Народен куклен театър с музика днес
The Traditional Puppet Theatre with Music Now

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the present-day manifestations of the traditional puppet theatre in the improvised shows of street musicians in Bulgaria in the late 1980s and the 1990s has been a part of the range of subjects associated with that cultural phenomenon and treated by science. At the end of the 20th century, what has been quite curious and interesting has been that repeated coming of the puppets out of the closed circle of the house onto the street stage, as an innovation or renewal of the puppet theatre at fairs. The puppet theatre with an attractive show in the programme of the street musician reproduces communication of a folklore type, accomplishing a cultural dialogue via the means of expression of inherited traditional experience. What is at hand is a kind of a folklore situation, in which the spontaneous need of a cultural self-expression has been combined with the repetitive nature of the event and its multiple variants. The article presents a classification of the traditional puppet the¬atre by various indicators: 1. systems of puppets; 2. function; 3. materials wherefrom the puppets have been made; 4. manner of performance; 5. genre characterisation of the musical repertory.

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