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Romani Routes - Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora (Hardcover, New)
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Romani Routes - Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora (Hardcover, New)
Series: American Musicspheres
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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. 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. As both a performer and
presenter on the world music circuit, Silverman has worked
extensively with Romani communities for more than two decades both
in their home countries and in the diaspora. At a time when the
political and economic plight of European Roma and the popularity
of their music are objects of international attention, Silverman's
book is incredibly timely.
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