Instructor: Dr. Matt Caine is Director of Traditional Music at St. John’s Methodist Church, Aiken. Both a Fulbright Scholar and a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow in Bulgarian Language and Culture of the United States Department of Education, his research is frequently cited by scholars in the US and Bulgaria. Description: Shrouded in mystery, the music of Bulgaria, a former Warsaw Pact country, is relatively unknown to audiences in the United States. Join Bulgarian music scholar Dr. Matt Caine in exploring the vast wealth of Bulgarian music, focusing on the music that was composed during the Cold War. From mass songs for the Communist Party to politically subversive music that managed to get past government censorship, there is a wide range of interesting and beautiful music to be discovered.