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| | Timothy Rice, May It Fill Your Soul: Experiencing Bulgarian Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30) |
 | | May It Fill Your Soul is a history and commentary on the massive changes in Bulgarian "folk" music that took place during the communist era, based on the experiences of Kostadin and Todora. |
 | | With the advent of communism, the government sought to blend village music with Western classical music, to merge the rural heritage with "clean," urban, educated values. |
 | | Wedding bands, which mixed traditional music with pop and jazz, as well as Gypsy and ethnic Turkish music, arose from the underground as families looked for a way to spend their money in a commodity-poor state. |
| www.greenmanreview.com /may.it.fill.your.soul.htm (774 words) |
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