VENETS: the Belogradchik journal for local history, cultural heritave and folk studies

5-18

Authors: V. Borisov

Recently Veselin Borisov, a professor of social medicine in the Medical University in Sofia, who is born in the village of Skomlya, near Belogradchik, has written a new and still unpublished book: “The chef d’oevure of God: Belogradchik visions.” An excerpt from the poetry section of the book is presented. All of the rhymes chosen are inspired from the poet’s memory from his schooling in Belogradchik and for his work as a physician in the Belogradchik hospital.

69-80

Authors: B.V. Toshev

Recently a paper about the meteorite of Belogradchik has been published (Тошев, 2010а). Additional information about the meteorite of 1874 is given in the present article. Here the description of the meteorite is after Flight (1887). Safvet pasha is the official who decided to donate the meteorite in Paris.

93-111

Authors: M. Ighile

This study attempts to provide a theoretical framework for the appreciation of music among the Benin, a strategic ethnic group in Nigeria. It investigates how concepts such as folk and popular song, music, noise, speech and sound find their relevant expression and place in the socio-cultural, economic, moral and even psychological setting of the Benin world. Finally, it is discovered that a conceptual approach is crucial, not only to the situation of the Benin oral literary values within a Western ideological context, but also in the facilitation of an objective evaluation of critical aspects of the life of people.

128-128

Authors: B.V. Toshev (Ed.)

Peter Russovsky - an artist