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Balkan Fascination - Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America (Paperback)
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Balkan Fascination - Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America (Paperback)
Series: American Musicspheres
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Divi Zheni identifies itself as a Bulgarian women's chorus and
band, but it is located in Boston and none of its members come from
Bulgaria. Zlatne Uste is one of the most popular purveyors of
Balkan music in America, yet the name of the band is grammatically
incorrect. The members of Sviraci hail from western Massachusetts,
upstate New York, and southern Vermont, but play tamburica music on
traditional instruments. Curiously, thousands of Americans not only
participate in traditional music and dance from the Balkans, but in
fact structure their social practices around it without having any
other ties to the region. In Balkan Fascination, ethnomusicologist
Mirjana Lausevic, a native of the Balkans, investigates this
remarkable phenomenon to explore why so many Americans actively
participate in specific Balkan cultural practices to which they
have no familial or ethnic connection. Going beyond traditional
interpretations, she challenges the notion that participation in
Balkan culture in North America is merely a specialized offshoot of
the 1960s American folk music scene. Instead, her exploration of
the relationship between the stark sounds and lively dances of the
Balkan region and the Americans who love them reveals that Balkan
dance and music has much deeper roots in America's ideas about
itself, its place in the world, and the place of the world's
cultures in the American melting pot. Examining sources that span
more than a century and come from both sides of the Atlantic,
Lausevic shows that an affinity group's debt to historical
movements and ideas, though largely unknown to its members, is
vital in understanding how and why people make particular music and
dance choices that substantially change their lives.
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