Publication

2021 - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Language

English

Word Count

36,000 words, Guess

Page Count

144 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781501346293
  • ISBN-101501346296
  • Better World Books9781501346293
  • Open LibraryOL29454720M

Classifications

  • LCCML3602

Description

"From countercultural resistance to world music craze, Balkan music captured the attention of global audiences. Balkanology , the 1991 quintessential album of Bulgarian music, highlights this moment of unbridled creativity. Seasoned musicians all over the world are still in awe of the technical abilities of the musicians in Ansambl Trakia-their complex additive rhythms, breakneck speeds, stunning improvisations, dense ornamentation, chromatic passages, and innovative modulations. Bridging folk, jazz, and rock sensibilities, Trakia's music has set the standard for Bulgarian music until today, and its members, especially Ivo Papazov, are revered stars at home and abroad. The album reveals how Romani (Gypsy) artists resisted the state's prohibition against Romani music and fashioned a genre that became a youth movement in Bulgaria, and then a world music phenomenon. Balkanology underscores the political, economic and social roles of music during socialism and postsocialism."--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Ivo Papasov's BalkanologyBloomsbury Publishing Plc2021

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