Приносът на Райна Кацарова в българската колекция на Алберт Лойд
Raina Katsarova’s Contribution to the Bulgarian Collection of Albert Lloyd

Summary/Abstract: In 1954 the famous British folklorist Albert Lloyd came to Bulgaria. His aim was to have a look at. the territory and to choose interesting material to be broadcast by BBC. I do not know exactly what is the connection between the BBC - collection of Albert Lloyd and the collection of Alan Lomax published the same year in the USA and how the songs and the instrumental melodies were transferred from Britain to America. In the introduction to his collection Lloyd wrote that he had visited some places in Bulgaria (their names were not mentioned), accompanied by Raina Katsarova - head of section “Musical folklore” at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, he had met Philip Koutev - conductor of the Ensemble for Folk Songs and Dances (today the Ensemble is called Philp Koutev) and Georgi Boyadjiev - editor-in-chief of section “Folk Music” at Radio Sofia. Althogh Lloyd was the author of the text, the selection of the collection - of authors, performers, genres, regions seemed to be prompted to a high extent by Raina Katsarova. This is evident from the thorough look at the terrain, the best performers included as well as performers who became stars about 15-20 years later.

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