Romani routes : cultural politics and Balkan music in diaspora /

Romani routes : cultural politics and Balkan music in diaspora /

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Author / Creator:Silverman, Carol, author.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, [c 2012]
©2012
Description:1 online resource (xxvii, 398 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:American musicspheres
American musicspheres.
Subject:
Romanies -- Music -- History and criticism.
Folk music -- Balkan Peninsula -- History and criticism.
Folk music.
Romanies -- Music.
Balkan Peninsula.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11305763
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Varying Form of Title:Cultural politics and Balkan music in diaspora
ISBN:9780199832781
0199832781
9780199910229
0199910227
9780195300949
0195300947
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-364) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Now that the political and economic plight of European Roma and the popularity of their music are objects of international attention, Romani Routes provides a timely and insightful view into Romani communities both in their home countries and in the diaspora. Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, festivals, and concerts has presented the music of Balkan Gypsies, or Roma, to Western audiences, who have greeted them with exceptional enthusiasm. Yet, as author Carol Silverman notes, Roma are revered as musicians and reviled as people. In this book, Silverman introduces readers to the people and cultures who produce this music, offering a sensitive and incisive analysis of how Romani musicians address the challenges of discrimination. Focusing on southeastern Europe then moving to the diaspora, her book examines the music within Romani communities, the lives and careers of outstanding musicians, and the marketing of music in the electronic media and "world music" concert circuit. Silverman touches on the way that the Roma exemplify many qualities--adaptability, cultural hybridity, transnationalism--that are taken to characterize late modern experience. And rather than just celebrating these qualities, she presents the musicians as complicated, pragmatic individuals who work creatively within the many constraints that inform their lives.
Other form:Print version: Silverman, Carol. Romani routes 9780195300949
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Balkan Roma : history, politics, and performance ; Musical styles and genres ; Dilemmas of diaspora, hybridity, and identity
  • Music in diasporic homes: Transnational families ; Transnational celebrations ; Transnational dance
  • Music, states, and markets: Dilemmas of heritage and the Bulgarian socialist state ; Cultural politics of postsocialist markets and festivals ; Bulgarian pop/folk : chalga
  • Musicians in transit: Esma Redžepova : "Queen of Gypsy music" ; Yuri Yunakov : saxophonist, refugee, citizen ; Romani music as world music ; Collaboration, appropriation, and transnational flows.

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