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Collection of Folk Tales and Ethnography. Book 62. Part 2.

Folklore from Sakar (Songs and instrumental melodies)

Nataliya Rashkova

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Year of Publication: 2012

Cover Type: Hard

Category: Folklore

Edition: First Edition

Pages: 1302

Format: n/a

Language: Bulgarian

Summary

The publication is a volume from the most prestigious series for publishing materials from the Bulgarian folklore heritage "Collection of Folk Thoughts and Folklore" with more than a hundred years of publishing history. In the collection of musical folklore from Sakar, 1568 songs and 104 instrumental melodies have been notated and selected, which present the full cycles of calendar and family rituals, labor practices and holidays in the local musical culture of the population in this part of Southeastern Bulgaria. The selection contains part of the documented repertoire of 222 singers, singers and musicians from 30 villages, studied in the 1980s.

Аbout The Author

• Nataliya Rashkova: Ethnomusicologist, Doctor of Arts, Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore with the Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; university lecturer in ethnomusicology and musical folklore. She has worked as a leader and participant in 22 research projects in the field of ethnomusicology, anthropological musicological research, the study of local ethnocultural and musical traditions, cultural identity, collective memory, migration processes, Bulgarian communities abroad, ethnological research, intercultural interactions. She has many years of experience in field ethnological research in Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Turkey. She has published over 120 scientific studies and articles at home and abroad.