No. 26 (2023): The Musical Accompaniment of Politics

Would you follow a leader who offers you a piece of music instead of a program? Don't rush to answer! Because from the dawn of human civilization, along with ideas, politicians have sought to master our emotions, and in this endeavor, music has its reserved place - from ritual to military march, from celebration to mourning. It has run like this up to this day: music channels the anger of protest, the identity experiences of the native land, the disgust of the opponent's "chalga". The issue aims to discuss those non-rational aspects of politics that political science usually underestimates. It is an element of a broader study on the relationship between pop culture and pop politics.

Editors: Ivaylo Dichev, Ventsislav Dimov

Cover artist: Mina Dicheva

Issue 26 of Seminar_BG is published within the framework of the research project "Pop Culture, Pop Politics: The Digital Turn. Interdisciplinary Analyses of the Intersection between Media, Cultures and Politics", implemented by scientists from the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Faculty of Philosophy of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, with the financial support of the FNI-MES, contract No. H55/2 of 15.12.2021.