Music for the people on the media front: perspectives from the bottom to the top Cover Image

Mузиката за народа на медийния фронт: погледи отдолу-нагоре
Music for the people on the media front: perspectives from the bottom to the top

Author(s): Ventsislav Dimov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Civil Society, Communication studies, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: peoples music; folk singer; socialism; Bulgarian radio; soft power

Summary/Abstract: This article looks for an answer to the questions how specific media and musical texts and figures (scripts, shows, songs, singers, hosts) are perceived by the audience, i.e. reception. How power narratives, reflected in media and music, and power media practices take on a life of their own, outside of media context and channels from top to bottom – folklorization. How low media-musical idioms, which can be in dissonance with the official ones, flourish from the bottom to the top. Several cases related to the media reception of folk singers (Petkana Zaharieva, Mita Stoycheva, Gyurga Pindzhurovа) and their newly created songs are considered.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 89-116
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Bulgarian