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标题：Diversifying the Groove: Bulgarian Folk Meets the Jazz Idiom
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作者：Claire Levy
期刊名称：Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies
印刷版ISSN：1307-0401
电子版ISSN：1306-9055
出版年度：2007
卷号：1
期号：02
出版社：Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies
摘要：During the 1960s, the decade before his immigration to the U.S., the Bulgarianborn musician Milcho Leviev – composer, arranger, piano player, and jazz innovator, – played a key role in Bulgarian jazz and paved the way for what is defined nowadays as “ethnojazz.” Swinging, for Leviev, was an approach that is compatible with diverse aspects of folk music, especially the ones which give rise to a particular cult of improvisation and virtuosity in local vernacular instrumental musics. The genesis of these folk styles, developed in the context of the transition from rural to urban life, indicates basic typological parallels with jazz as a specific socio-musical practice. Experimenting in this direction, Leviev began a new chapter in the innovation of jazz, inspired by the idea of non-traditional forms of fusion, in this case between the jazz idiom and the vocabulary of Bulgarian folk music. Based on conversations with Leviev held in July 2006 (Sofia), this article explores the artist’s vision of jazz and analyzes some of his earliest recordings from the 1960’s which defined the field known as folk-jazz at the time.
关键词：Folk-jazz, ethnojazz, swinging, odd rhythms, exotic rhythms, asymmetric meters, non- Western, fusion, Bulgarian folk, groove, Balkan groove