Popular Music in Bulgaria: At the Crossroads
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 34Z_OP_A0019
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Emerald
- ISBN
- 978-1-78743-697-8
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph (258pp), which is the first book-length account of Bulgarian popular music, employs the metaphor of the “crossroads” to describe the music’s relationship to post-communist transition, the struggle for social change, and the cultural meanings associated with the Balkans. Based on the author’s PhD, it is an ethnographic study including 32 interviews with musicians, key music business figures, and other industry workers across genres including pop, rock, post-punk, ethno-experimental, and pop-folk. The research was conducted over 5 years and involved synthesising first-hand accounts and observations with secondary sources such as sound recordings, and online, print, and broadcast media.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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