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Manele in Romania: Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music

Manele in Romania: Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music

Radulescu, Speranta
Giurchescu, Anca
Beissinger, Margaret

Hardcover

Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities

Country & FolkWorld Music

ISBN10: 1442267070
ISBN13: 9781442267077
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Aug 8 2016
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This edited volume examines manele (sing. manea), an urban Romanian song-dance ethnopop genre that combines local traditional and popular music with Balkan and Middle Eastern elements. The genre is performed primarily by male Romani musicians at weddings and clubs and appeals especially to Romanian and Romani youth. It became immensely popular after the collapse of communism, representing for many the newly liberated social conditions of the post-1989 world. But manele have also engendered much controversy among the educated and professional elite, who view the genre as vulgar and even alien to the Romanian national character. The essays collected here examine the manea phenomenon as a vibrant form of cultural expression that engages in several levels of social meaning, all informed by historical conditions, politics, aesthetics, tradition, ethnicity, gender, class, and geography.

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