Розмари Стателова: „Естрада и социализъм: Проблясъци“
Rosemary Statelova: “Pop Music and Socialism: Gleams“

Summary/Abstract: “Pop Music and Socialism: Gleams“ is Rosemary Statelova’s latest monograph, which offers new music-anthropological interpretations of Bulgarian pop music under socialism. Pop music under socialism is treated as a process unfolding over a period of about four decades and developing in three stages: the first is defined as an ‘early stage’ (1950s); the second as the arrival of a new phenomenon, namely that of ‘pop music with a creative face’ (1960s and the early 1970s); the third as ‘maturity’ (mid-1970s until the political upheaval of 1989), focusing on the Golden Orpheus Festival of Pop Music. The photographs, being invaluable evidence of the development of Bulgarian pop music, add expressive iconicity and documentary informativeness to the book.

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