Изследователска група „Музика и танц в Югоизточна Европа”: преживяна история

Author(s): Lozanka Peicheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2015

The process of creation and development of the ICTM Study Group Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe at UNESCO is researched in the text. The occurrence of idea to create this Study Group and its development in the period 2005–2007 are observed. After the establishment of the Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe by the ICTM Board in Canberra,Australia (February 16-17, 2008), four symposia were held that are presented in the text: 1) 2008 – Ohrid, Macedonia; 2) 2010 – Izmir, Turkey; 3) 2012 – Berovo, Macedonia; 4) 2014 – Valjevo, Serbia. There are outlined the closest perspectives for the study group connected with the organization and realization of the next Fifth Symposium in 2016 hosted by the South-West University “Neofit Rilski” in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.

Любомир Кутин: „Българските фестивали. Категории и системи за оценка“

Author(s): Rosemary Statelova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2015

This review seeks to present a new book, Bulgarian Festivals (2014) by cultural specialist Dr Lubomir Kutin, which is a follow-up to his study Festival as a Phenomenon of Artistic Culture (2004). In the first part, Lubomir Kutin’s body of work is presented. Both as a theoretician and researcher and as a practician, Kutin’s every effort has been devoted to work in the field of running and management of culture. The second part of the article treats Bulgarian Festivals as a set of two studies. The first one features a typology of the festivals on the basis of nine anthropological, socio-cultural and artistic categories: play, spectacle, celebration, space, time, institution, artistes, programme, audience. The second study gives a consideration to the necessity for a new approach to the control and evaluation of the festivals in Bulgaria. The final part of the review quotes an excerpt from the author’s statement at the public discussion on his Bulgarian Festivals, held in autumn 2014 at the Centre for the Study of Democracy.

DEMOKRATIZACIJA BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE

Author(s): Damirka Mihaljević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2015

The process of democratization of Bosnia and Herzegovina started with the disintegration of the Yugoslav state in whose frame Bosnia and Herzegovina was one of the six federal units. As a very complex federal state Yugoslavia did not function on a voluntary basis principles. It was being held together only through the repression of the system. The fall of the socialism as an ideology and as an order, as well as loosening of the control, meant at the same time the end of the Yugoslav federation. The beginnings of the democratization of BH that are to be seen in the process of introducing multi-party system are marked by national homogenization of the three ethnic segments. Under historical circumstances and under various influences, Bosnia and Herzegovina did not stand a chance to construct a uniform political identity. Each country, in order to exist, must be based on a sense of belonging of its citizens and nations. It must be based on a consensus about the important value system and a manner of achieving common interests. No country can exist without political identity. That is the basic problem of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a political community. It is the main obstacle in the democratization process and its development.

Molisan cuisine (names of dishes) as an example of multiculturalism and multilingualism

Author(s): Adrianna Słabińska / Language(s): English Issue: 06/2015

Today Croats can be found living in many parts of the world. The process of Slavic migrations started in the 7th. Diasporas can be found in Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic (Moravia and nowadays Prague), Serbia, Italy, even across the oceans in the USA, South America, RSA and Australia. The Croatian minority in Molise is the smallest Croatian minority in the world. Croatian is spoken there by about 2000 to 2400 people in three isolated mountain commu¬nities. They settled in villages, Kruč, Mundimitr and Filić possibly between the 14th and 15th century. Several Turkish invasions took place during this period, so Croats were forced to hide from the Sultan’s armies and they found refuge on the Apennine Peninsula. The country of Croatia, occupied with its battle against the infidels, has forgotten about its fellow countrymen, who had been living in the region of Molis, for a long time. In every day Croatian speech one can hear multiple loan-words. A particular problem can occur when writing some names of dishes which have been passed down but orally only. Molisan-Croatian cuisine and culinary names are part of Croatian cuisine that was created during the time of the Croatian Diaspora.

Райна Кацарова: слънчевата дама на българската етномузикология и етнохореология

Author(s): Lozanka Peicheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

Raina Katsarova’s work is of an intrinsic value to the establishing and the development of Bulgarian ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology. She was a renowned Bulgarian researcher in the 1920s, but also through the 1980s, an authoritative champion of collecting and preserving traditional lore in the form of tens of thousands of Bulgarian folk songs. This study systematises biographical data of Raina Katsarova’s life, integrating various voices in one story and offering a general rethinking of her personality and activities. The events and the facts interpreted in this statement have been selected from various in terms of their size, genre and content source material: a variety of published sources (Raina Katsarova’s publications; other publications related to her life, personality and career; interviews with her; Raina Katsarova’s memories), archive material (fieldwork notebooks, diaries, photos, letters, etc.), talks with her nearest and dearest. Biographical resear​ch method was applied as a rewarding scientific strategy and a tool of representing the fluid dynamics of life, of providing an insight into her figure and work and of the unique historical significance of Raina Katsarova to the domains of ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology. The systematic arranging of the selected facts and materials is grouped in the following thematic lines: 1). A timeline of her life in a chronological narrative of facts and events, stages and processes; 2) A brief overview of her major studies and achievements; 3). The essence of her fieldwork; 4) Her contribution to the creation of an ethnomusicological environment at the National Ethnographic Museum and BAS.

Райна Кацарова и най-ранните теренни звукозаписи на традиционна музика от България

Author(s): Ventsislav Dimov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

This study presents the earliest resources of the folk music archive of the Institute of Art Studies, BAS: fieldwork recordings of traditional music made in the period 1938–1950. The text is part of a project, Raina Katsarova and the beginnings​ of recording activities in Bulgarian ethnomusicology. The study is based on the folk music recordings made by Raina Katsarova in 1938–1950, and by her collaborators Ivan Kachulev and Elena Stoin (1948–1950), using a Presto recorder and instantaneous discs. The study presents the earliest recordings (231 metal core acetates: 142 12-inch and 89 8-inch), digitised by Alex Nushev) containing songs, instrumental music and rarely, verbal folklore. There are 1,570 items or about 31 hours of recorded music in store for describing, identifying and studying (by the author and Dr Galina Denkova) The interpretation, apart from the recorded sound, includes handwritten fieldwork notebooks or other fieldwork material from the verbal folk music archive and the personal archive of Raina Katsarova (kept at the archive of the Institute of Art Studies), papers by Raina Katsarova delivered during her trips to several Bulgarian regions and places in 1941– 1944 (kept at the archive of The Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, BAS), pictures from academic and personal archives, publications in periodicals. It is the first attempt to make such a comprehensive and full presentation with a detailed chronological description of the earliest fieldwork recordings in Bulgaria. The second part of the study seeks to make analytical readings of the recording database. Two views of the early recordings are offered: exploration of the areas of the recorded voices and music (places and regions, where the recordings have been made and where the informants and repertories belong) and of the tradition bearers on the grooves (analysed by age, sex, education, settled way of life, ethnic group, profession, etc., mostly by the classifying columns and ‘marginal notes’ in the fieldwork notebooks). The conclusion underscores that by using recorders in the 1930s and the 1940s Bulgarian science joined the mainstream of the West-European ethnomusicology. Raina Katsarova was the founder of fieldwork sound recording presenting songs, instrumental music, manufacturing of instruments, ring dances and games through their cultural functioning, their role in the life of the community and men. She set the beginning of the anthropological and culturological turn in Bulgarian folk music studies. Raina Katsarova’s legacy and that of her collaborators on fieldwork recording, Ivan Kachulev and Elena Stoin still holds unexhausted potential for informational content, creativity and future insights. That is why it is worth completing the process of their digitisation and cataloguing, publishing more extensive information about them and about the initial stages of their exploration.

Hrvatski tradicijski napjevi Međimurja na tragu Havelockovih kognitivnolingvističkih koncepata

Author(s): Lidija Bajuk / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2014

This paper attempts to classify the Croatian traditional songs from Međimurje according to two basic cognitive-linguistic concepts, presented in 1986 in The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present by American philologist Eric Alfred Havelock. The two categories of traditional songs are: songs passed on by oral tradition, which present the behavior of mythical beings and people in mythical natural or real cultural settings (A), and songs passed on by written word which articulate the "myself" (B). Cognitive linguistics as a contemporary humanistic discipline considers in context the two-way creative correlation between the worldview of the author-performer and the listener – whose personal views reinterpret and redefine the world.

Защо смятат чехите във Войводово за немци?

Author(s): Marek Jakoubek / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2015

The text represents a contribution to the study of Vojvodovo, the Czech village in Bulgaria. The author attempts to answer in his analysis the following question: why so many Vojvodovo Czech Protestants chose as their marriage partners among the inhabitants of the nearby village of Bardarski Geran, both Banat Bulgarians (Paulicians) and Banat Swabians. In both villages religion was perhaps the most important organizational principle, religious endogamy being one of its main rules. As a result of that it might be expected not of find intermarriages between Vojvodovo and Bardarski geran, but the opposite, however, was the truth. The author shows that the reason, because of which the members of the two communities felt a kind of mutual affinity, was culture as both groups shared many cultural traits. One of these cultural traits was deep and genuine religiosity, or, better to say, belief. Thus, though at the first sight it is religiosity (seen as the creed) that seems to prevent any closer contacts between the two communities, it is religiosity (seen as belief) that stands behind the surprising and unexpected number of marriages that took place between the members of the two local communities

Живот, посветен на българската народоука

Author(s): Elena Ognianova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

The author, a writer, folklorist and ethnographer, offers her views on​ the scope of Raina Katsarova as a researcher and a person, citing her works, academic and social activities and mostly, her own contacts during their close friendship and cooperation of four decades. The patriotism of Raina Katsarova, a woman from Koprivshtitsa, is highlighted along with her role in promoting folk songs on the radio, the press, training aids, books, and song collections. The article provides interesting facts about Raina Katsarova’s cooperation with Academician Mikhail Arnaudov regarding a research area, pioneered by Katsarova in Bulgaria, that of ethnochoreology. Raina Katsarova’s social activities are highlighted along with her scientific contribution and international weight.

Bulgarian Catholics in Macedonia (1879–1912): An Attempt for Statistical and Demographic Overview

Author(s): Stanislava Stoytcheva / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2014

After the Congress of Berlin (1978) which divided the Bulgarian lands, the bulk of the Bulgarian Catholics remained within the Ottoman Empire – mostly in Macedonia and less in Eastern Thrace. Using interdisciplinary methodology, the study traces the geographical distribution, size and demographic indicators of the Bulgarian Catholics (respectively Uniates) in Macedonia in the period 1879-1912, which has not been a subject of specialized scientific research so far. For this purpose it analyzes the above mentioned parameters according to official statistics of the Ottoman Empire, data of the Bulgarian Exarchate, Catholic data (such as the mission of the Lazarites, etc.), and Greek and Bulgarian official sources. It presents the differences in the national statistics about the number of Bulgarian Uniates and the attempts to manipulate the data by the Greek and Turkish side with the aim to demonstrate their “real” nationality. Last but not least it traces statistically traced the waves of ebb and flow of the Uniate movement in the 19th-20th centuries. As a result, the conclusion is made that although the registered outflow from the union in the late 19th – early 20th c., on the eve of the First Balkan War (1912) is observed strengthening and certain extension of the positions of Catholicism among the Bulgarians in Macedonia. This is confirmed both by the data from Catholic sources, and those of the Bulgarian Exarchate for 1911–1912.

Migration and Identity: Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Dimensions of Mobility in the Balkans. Edited by Petko Hristov. Sofia: Paradigma, 2012

Author(s): Mira Markova / Language(s): English Issue: Special/2016

Българската традиционна култура - поглед отвътре

Author(s): Georgi Gerov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2003

Zwyczaje i obyczaje górnośląskie. Życie religijne, wybór tekstów B. Linek, Gliwice 2013, ss. 111 II wojna światowa we wspomnieniach mieszkańców Górnego Śląska, wybór i red. naukowa A. Dawid, Gliwice-Opole 2014, ss.174

Author(s): Katarzyna Bock-Matuszyk / Language(s): Polish,German Issue: 05/2015

Clothing between Secular and Religious: Policies and Identity

Author(s): Iva Kyurkchieva,Maya Kosseva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

This paper focuses on the question of how clothing which expresses religious identity is used and perceived in Bulgarian secular society. The authors discuss different strategies in the choice of religious symbols and clothes corresponding to individual roles in society, as well as to the ethnic and religious communities in general. The exposition follows through several basic cases in which the activities of state institutions and public opinion are discussed. The strategies in regard to the religious elements of clothing in the public and private spheres in Bulgaria are viewed in terms of a historical and contemporary perspective of the relations between the religious and the secular in the context of the traditional ethnic and religious variety in Bulgaria. Research on the topic indicates that there is a necessary and clear position on the part of the institutions and civil society in order to build adequate mechanisms to influence or control the processes in the future.

Sofia Zahova. Cherna Gora sled Yugoslavia: Dinamiki na identichnostite [Montenegro after Yugoslavia: Dynamics of Identities]. Sofia: Paradigma, 2013.

Author(s): Mila Maeva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

VI. Малоазийските сектантски формирования (казълбаши, тахтаджи и др. )

Author(s): Franz Babinger / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 21/2014

This article represent textual part of the book of Franz Babinger "Sheikh Bedreddin, the son of the judge from Simav" (translation by the editor).

Локализиране на балканската прародина на българите туканци от Бесарабия и Таврия според писмени и фолклорни източници

Author(s): Alexander I. Ganchev,Vladimir Milchev,Alexander A. Prigarin / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

The problem of the origin of tukantsi, the first Bulgarian settlers in Budjak remains already for a long time a controversial question. The article, which is the result of a complex research of the authors, demonstrates that the inhabitants of the valleys between Stara planina and Sredna Gora called Karadza Dag (Sarnena Sredna Gora) are the earliest Bulgarian immigrants in Southern Bessarabia in modern times. The article is based on different sources: acts and statistics from the archival collections of modern Ukraine and Moldova and materials from field studies accomplished by the authors in the period between 2012 and 2014, in Budjak and Sredna gora (photo documents, oral and written narratives). The updated statistical documents, together with the narratives, the folklore, graphic and other types of sources not only allow to confirm the hypothesis of the South Bulgarian origin of the tukantsi from the region of Karadza Dag, but also reflect the direct continuity, the direct genetic link between Budjak and the Balkans during the nineteenth century.

Владимир Демирев. Местно знание и сакрална топография в Сливенско. Сливен: ИК „Жажда”, 2014

Author(s): Ivan Marazov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

Book Review

Дисертации

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 24/2012

Defended PhD theses in Bulgaria in the field of linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography and art studies

Научни форуми

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 23/2011

Data about scientific events in the field of the humanities in Bulgaria in 2011