A Post-Emigratory Issue. The Promises of the Intercultural Situation in the Dissolution of Blocs: Bulgarian Composers’ Illusions and Interpretations Cover Image
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Постемигрантският проблем. Обещанието на интеркултурната ситуация в разпадането на блоковете – илюзии и интерпретации на български композитори
A Post-Emigratory Issue. The Promises of the Intercultural Situation in the Dissolution of Blocs: Bulgarian Composers’ Illusions and Interpretations

Author(s): Angelina Petrova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: Following 2000, the cultural spaces of postmodernity when it comes to authors of Bulgarian extraction is no longer associated with folk-authentic citing and influences. Some important and quite active authors of Bulgarian extraction such as Vladimir Panchev and Simeon Pironkov Jr (Austria); Adrian Pavlov (Germany); Adrian Pervazov (USA) and Dimiter Yosifov (Bulgaria) compose brilliant pieces and position themselves very well in terms of their career path at a number of contemporary music events such as Wien Modern, Randspiele, ISCM 114 World Music Days, etc. Due to the ingenious interpretations of the neo-avantgarde and the post-modern in their work these authors make a vivid impression at the major contemporary music events held in Austria and Germany. It is such authors as Simeon Pironkov Jr and Adrian Pavlov who are no longer deemed to be migrants or self-evaluating themselves through the emigratory issue, but rather they are authentic authors in Western Europe’s contemporary situation. This paper explores the status of their ideas in the neo-avant-garde and the postmodern and the effect of their measuring of a kind against Bulgarian modernism on their concepts. A major line of Bulgarian new pieces is the fitted-into and kept under the radar interest in the modernistic, which is a direct projection of the closed Bulgarian modernism of the ‘inner emigration’ and the modern contours of compositional practice and authorial choices.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 105-114
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English, Bulgarian