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Принос към историята на популярната музика в България
A Contribution to the History of Popular Music in Bulgaria

Author(s): Ventsislav Dimov
Subject(s): History, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Scientific Life
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: Mihail Lukanov’s book is the first successful attempt to highlight in a monograph the role of such an all-round artistic figure as Milyo Basan: composer, musician, orchestra conductor, historian of popular music. The article analyses both the imagery of his songs and the documentary value of his unpublished extensive notes on a specific aspect of the history of Bulgarian music. Drawing on Basan’s work and previous studies, Lukanov authored and published the first ever monograph on him: a composer and musician involved in the processes and a historian of Bulgaria’s popular music. Lukanov’s study contains three chapters: Chapter One is dedicated to Milyo Basan’s life; the second chapter deals with his career of a composer of theatrical music and schlagers that have appeared on vinyl recordings; Chapter Three presents Milyo Basan as a historian of popular music in Bulgaria, who has authored the earliest comprehensive and reliable record of the names, facts and events pertaining to the advent and development of popular music in this country, now kept at the archives of BAS. The book contains also three supplements structuring and retrieving the archival material about and the work of Basan, thus suggesting to those, who happen to be interested, where and what is available and retrievable of the still unknown history of Bulgaria’s popular music.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 124-127
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Bulgarian