The connection between politics and pop music in the Bulgarian newspapers in the period 2006-2009 Cover Image

Връзката политика-естрадна музика в българските вестници в периода 2006 – 2009 г.
The connection between politics and pop music in the Bulgarian newspapers in the period 2006-2009

Author(s): Zhana Popova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Media studies, Music, Communication studies
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: politics; pop music; newspapers; socialism; democracy; media

Summary/Abstract: The text presents part of the results of a larger research about what and how the media write about the „estrade” and the „pop” music after 1990. How was the connection between music and politics during socialism and the transition to democracy portrayed in the newspapers after 1990? What are the political messages in the journalistic stories that come from the figures of the estrade music? Here you will find the results and the analysis of the selected research questions only between 2006 and 2009. This is a period after and before elections during which rallies, and party concerts are not key events. Instead the TVs start to use the estrade musicians in a new way. They invite them to be part of the juries of blooming TV reality shows. The Estrada musicians are turned into a public „censor” dictating what is the role or the musician in the society.