Popular Music in Contemporary Bulgaria: At the Crossroads

On the crossroads between the cultural influences of perceived global models and local specificity, entangled in webs of post-communist complexity, Bulgarian popular music has evolved as a space of change and creativity on the edge of Europe. An ethnographic exploration, this book accesses insight from music figures from a spectrum of styles.

Asya Draganova is Lecturer in Media and Communications at Birmingham City University, UK. She co-leads the Popular Music Research Cluster at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. Her research interests include contemporary Bulgarian music, the Canterbury Sound, and heavy metal music heritage. Asya, who is from Sofia, is also a guitarist and singer: this continuously inspires her to explore the cultural and social significance of popular music.