Romani routes : cultural politics and Balkan music in 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 musici...
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| Format: | Ouvrage |
| Language: | Anglais |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st paperback ed. |
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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.