Ivo Papazov’s Balkanology (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	33 1/3 Europe
Release date:	2021
Authors:	Carol Silverman
Dimensions:	197 x 127 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-4630-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians Books > Music > Composers & musicians Promotions
LSN:	1-5013-4630-X
Barcode:	9781501346309

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