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The Gypsy Caravan: From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music

The Gypsy Caravan: From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music

Paperback

Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertatio

World Music

ISBN10: 0415861454
ISBN13: 9780415861458
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 12 2014
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A formidable challenge to the study of Roma (Gypsy) music is the muddle of fact and fiction in determining identity. This book investigates Gypsy music as a marked and marketable exotic substance, and as a site of active cultural negotiation and appropriation between the real Roma and the idealized Gypsies of the Western imagination. David Malvinni studies specific composers-including Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Janacek, and Bartók-whose work takes up contested and varied configurations of Gypsy music. The music of these composers is considered alongside contemporary debates over popular music and film, as Malvinni argues that Gypsiness remains impervious to empirical revelations about the real Roma.

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