Subject Week: “Bulgarian Language and Culture”

In support of Bulgaria’s Culture Week, organized by Samodiva and the Bulgarian Language and Culture Program at AUBG, we bring you some handpicked reading on Bulgarian language, culture, art, history, and more.

While the curated print selection pulls heavily from our collection of large books, focusing on art and folk custom, our E-book list is a varied, critical look of both articles and e-books tackling more modern inquiries into the culture and its historical influences.

Print Books:

1. Avramov, D. (1989). Maistora i Negovoto Vreme. Bulgarski Hudoznik. N7193.D5 A98 1989
2. Beron, P., & Ilieva, L. (2024). Bukvar s Razlichni Poucheniia: 200 godini iubileino izdanie. Bulgarska istoriia. PG837. B365 2018
3. Drinov, M. (1998). Kalendarni Praznitsi i Obichai na Bulgarite : Entsiklopediia. Akademichno Izdatelstvo “Prof. Marin Drinov” Bulgarian Encyclopedia BAN. GT4867.A2 K35 1998
4. Hrabur, C., & Trifonova, I. (2025). Za Bukvite. Bulgarska Istoria. PG705 .C44 2025
5. Kenarov, D. (2025). Bulgarskata sleda. Zhanet 45. PG1038.21. E58 B854 2025
6. Koenig, M. (2019). Sound portraits from Bulgaria : a journey to a vanished world 1966-1979. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. M1712 .S68 2019
7. Mihov, N. (2012). Forget Your Past. Janet 45 Publishing. NA9348.B8 M5513 2012
8. Petrov, K. (2008) Bulgarski narodni tantsi ot Iugozapadna Bulgariia (Pirin). Izdatelstvo Slavena. GV1743 .P48 2008
9. Stareva, L. (2005). Bulgarski svettsi i praznitsi : rituali i zabrani, gadaniia, predskazaniia i magii, meteorologichni prognozi, obredni veshti, khrani i simvoli. Sofiia: Izdatelska kushta Trud, GT4867.A2 S74 2005
10. Vasileva, M. (2003). Traditional Bulgarian Calendar : Illustrated Encyclopedia. Bulgaria Academy of Sciences Vion Publishers. GT2767. T75 2003

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E-books:

1. Боев, З. (2023). Български Народни Противоприродни Обичаи И Суеверия. Natural Science & Advanced Technology Education, 32(3/4), 213–225. Ebscohost.
2. Draganova, A. (2019). Popular Music in Contemporary Bulgaria : At the Crossroads(First edition). Emerald Publishing Limited. Ebscohost.
3. Goncharova, G. N. (2021). New dynamics of religious death culture in Bulgaria in the post-socialist transition period. Mortality, 26(2), 187–201. Ebscohost.
4. Ivanova, T., Ganeva-Raicheva, V., Bosseva, Y., & Dimitrova, D. (2021). Singing the nature – еthnobotanical knowledge in Bulgarian folk songs. Botan‪ical Sciences, 99(2). DOAJ.
5. Kaneff, D. (2004). Who Owns the Past? : The Politics of Time in a ‘Model’ Bulgarian Village. Berghahn Books, Incorporated. Ebscohost.
6. Lubanska. M. (2016). Muslims and Christians in the Bulgarian Rhodopes. : Studies on Religious (Anti)Syncretism. De Gruyter Open Poland. Ebscohost.
7. Popova, Z. (2020). Stories about Socialist Culture as Told by “Estrada Musicians” in Bulgaria: Two Perspectives on the past from 1990-1992 and 2010-2018. Facta Universitatis: Series Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology & History, 19(2), 141–152. Ebscohost.