Ventsislav Dimov

Научна степен

Sc. D.

Преподавателски титли

Professor

Катедра

Radio and Television

Ръководител

Radio and Television

Кабинет

33, ет. IІ

Приемно време

Сряда 12-13 ч.

Имейл

vddimov@uni-sofia.bg

Телефон

02/9308 210

Ventsislav Dimov [PhD (1999); Ph.D. (2018)] is a professor at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski," Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is the head of the Ethnomusicology Research Group at the Institute for Art Studies - BAS. He has habilitations in fields 3.5. Public Communications and Information Sciences and 8.3. Music and Dance Arts. Author of 7 monographs (two of which are co-authored); over 300 scientific publications: studies, articles, reviews, published in Bulgarian and foreign journals and collections. Participant in authoring teams for textbooks and teaching aids. Areas of scientific interest: social and human sciences, media studies, ethnomusicology, anthropology of traditional and popular music, media music and the music industry, cultural history, etc. Active scientific popularizer, publicist, journalist with many years of experience in the media. From 1993 to 2020, he was the author and host of the radio program "Folk Magazine" on Darik Radio's national airwaves, and from 1997 to 2007, he was the author and host of the weekly radio program "Studio Ethno" on the same radio station. He is a screenwriter and consultant for dozens of television and documentary films and has collaborated with Bulgarian National Radio, Bulgarian National Television, and Fan Folk TV. He is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Composers – Musicologists Section; ICTMD – International Council for Traditional Music and Dance at UNESCO; Filmautor – the Bulgarian organization for the management of copyright and related rights in audiovisual works; the Union of Bulgarian Journalists. Recipient of many awards for scientific and applied activities. Member of the editorial board of Medialog magazine, the Yearbook of Sofia University – Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Art Studies Readings – New Art: a thematic peer-reviewed WS collection on art studies.

Courses

Музика в електронните медии (Радио)

Музика в електронните медии (Телевизия)

Управление на музикалната индустрия в онлайн среда

Комуникативни умения (Радио)

Радиожанрове - 1

Антропология на популярната музикална култура

Музика в медиите

Музика и дигитални медии

Антропология на медийната музикална култура

Publications

Monographs
Ventsislav Dimov. The Ethno-Pop Boom. Bulgarian Musicology. Research. Sofia, 2001, 196 pp. ISBN 954-8307-14-6.
Peicheva, Lozanka, Ventsislav Dimov. The Zurna Tradition in Southwest Bulgaria. Sofia, 2002. Bulgarian Musicology, Research. 512 pp. / Peicheva, Lozanka, Ventsislav Dimov. 2002. The Zurna Tradition in Southwest Bulgaria. Sofia: Bulgarian Musicology – Research. ISBN 954-8307-27-8. Ventsislav Dimov. Dobrudzha: Memory and Songs. Dobrich: Matador 74, 2012, 228 pages (A4 format). ISBN 978-954-371-324-0. Ventsislav Dimov. Music for the People on the Media Front (The Soft Power of Folk and Popular Music in Socialist Bulgaria). Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2019 (368 pages). ISBN 978-954-07-4796-5.
Dimov, Ventsislav. 2021. The Living Voices: Presentation of the Archived Sound Heritage of Raina Katsarova (records from the 1930s and 1940s). Sofia: Institute for Art Studies, Bulgarian Musicology magazine. ISBN 978-619-7619-10-2.
Peicheva, Lozanka, Ventsislav Dimov, Geo Kukudov. With Dance and Song, with Pen and Word (120 years since the birth of Raina Katsarova). Sofia, 2021. Simepress Publishing House, 419 pp. ISBN 978-619-183-104-3.
Compilation of anthologies
Peicheva, Lozenka, Ventsislav Dimov (comp., ed.). Music, Roma, Media. Sofia, Zvezdan, 2005, 135 pp. ISBN 954-8307-54-5.
Dimov, Ventsislav – Scientific editor/compiler (with R. Statelova, A. Rodel, L. Peicheva, Iv. Vlaveva, and V. Dimov) of the collection The Human World and Musical Diversity. Proceeding from the Fourth Meeting of the ICTM Study Group “Music and Minorities” in Varna, Bulgaria 2006. Sofia, Institute of Art Studies, 2008. ISBN 978-954-8594-11-0.
Dimov, Ventsislav (co-compiled with A. Yaneva, V. Vasileva, E. Ivanova, K. Mincheva, K. Nikolova, L. Stoilova, M. Miteva, N. Yordanov, R. Bix, St. Venkova). Yanakiev, Alexander (ed.). Sofiorama: 1928-1948. Panorama of Cultural Life in the Capital. Events and Documents. Sofia: Institute for Art Studies, 2012. ISBN 978-954-8594-42-4. Articles and Studies in Scientific Collections and Journals Dimov, Ventsislav. 2025. Echoes of a Play of Genres (Early Sound Recordings in Bulgaria – Historicity and Non-linearity). In: Statulov, Deyan (ed.). Art and History. Art History Readings. Thematic peer-reviewed annual journal for art studies in two volumes. 2024.II. – New Art. Sofia: Institute for Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2025, pp. 353-364. ISSN (print): 1313-2342; ISBN: 978-619-7619-42-3. (Web of Science)
Dimov, Ventsislav (2025). Strange Birds in Song-Cages (From Radio “Parrots” to Internet “Turkeys”: The Funny and the Hilarious in the Nexus of the Popular and the Political in Media Music from Bulgaria). In: Sociological Problems. An. LVII, 2025, Special Issue “Pop-Culture, Pop-Politics: The Digital Turn“, p. 92-120. ISSN 0324-1572 (ERIH PLUS)
Dimov, Ventsislav. 2024. On Hip-Hop Music as Pop-Politics: A Look at the Poetics in Trajectories of Content and Form. Philosophy / Filosofiya – Philosophy, Volume 33, Number 3s – Special Issue. Year XXXIII / Book 3s – Special Edition. pp. 113-125. ISSN 0861-6302 (Print) ISSN 1314-8559 (Online) https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-03S-11 (referenced and indexed in Web of Science).