Boryana Mangova

Boryana Mangova is a lecturer at the National Academy of Music "Professor Pancho Vladigerov" in Bulgaria. Her work focuses on 20th-century music theory and history, particularly the ideological complexities of Dmitri Shostakovich's compositions under Stalinist regimes.

• Current faculty at National Academy of Music
• Specializes in Soviet/Russian music history
• Active in pedagogical and performance research

Research interests include:

• Shostakovich's political and artistic ambivalence
• Russian avant-garde opera aesthetics
• Historiographical challenges in 20th-century music

Recent publications examine:

• Propaganda dynamics in Soviet music culture
• Avant-garde influences on Shostakovich's "Nose"
• Interdisciplinary connections between music and visual art