A Multi-media Documentation of Bulgarian Folk Music (Research Brief)

In light of Bulgaria’s rapidly-changing musical culture, my goal is to archive a priceless cultural artifact that is not yet extinct, but certainly endangered. As an IREX fellow this past year, I began work on this ambitious and important project, traveling to preselected villages to record and document (via interviews, videotapes, and photographs) the music within a historic, cultural, and folkloric context.

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Regina D’Amico, President and CEO, Patchwork Productions, Inc., was a 2001-02 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellow.