Music City And The Roma Under Communism

Author : Anna G. Piotrowska
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501380834
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music, City and the Roma under Communism written by Anna G. Piotrowska and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the role of Romani musical presence in Central and Eastern Europe, especially from Krakow in the Communist period, and argues that music can and should be treated as one of the main points of relation between Roma and non-Roma. It discusses Romani performers and the complexity of their situation as conditioned by the political situations starkly affected by the Communist regime, and then by its fall. Against this backdrop, the book engages with musician Stefan Dymiter (known as Corroro) as the leader of his own street band: unwelcome in the public space by the authorities, merely tolerated by others, but admired by many passers-by and respected by his peer Romain musicians and international music stars. It emphasizes the role of Romani musicians in Krakow in shaping the soundscape of the city while also demonstrating their collective and individual strategies to adapt to the new circumstances in terms of the preferred performative techniques, repertoire, and overall lifestyle.

Author : Anna G. Piotrowska
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501380826
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music, City and the Roma under Communism written by Anna G. Piotrowska and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the role of Romani musical presence in Central and Eastern Europe, especially from Krakow in the Communist period, and argues that music can and should be treated as one of the main points of relation between Roma and non-Roma. It discusses Romani performers and the complexity of their situation as conditioned by the political situations starkly affected by the Communist regime, and then by its fall. Against this backdrop, the book engages with musician Stefan Dymiter (known as Corroro) as the leader of his own street band: unwelcome in the public space by the authorities, merely tolerated by others, but admired by many passers-by and respected by his peer Romain musicians and international music stars. It emphasizes the role of Romani musicians in Krakow in shaping the soundscape of the city while also demonstrating their collective and individual strategies to adapt to the new circumstances in terms of the preferred performative techniques, repertoire, and overall lifestyle.

Author : Carol Silverman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199910227
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romani Routes written by Carol Silverman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that the political and economic plight of European Roma and the popularity of their music are objects of international attention, Romani Routes provides a timely and insightful view into Romani communities both in their home countries and in the 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 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. And 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.

Author : Anna G. Piotrowska
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
ISBN 13 : 155553838X
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gypsy Music in European Culture written by Anna G. Piotrowska and published by Northeastern University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the Polish, Anna G. PiotrowskaÕs Gypsy Music in European Culture details the profound impact that Gypsy music has had on European culture from a broadly historical perspective. The author explores the stimulating influence that Gypsy music had on a variety of European musical forms, including opera, vaudeville, ballet, and vocal and instrumental compositions. The author analyzes the use of Gypsy themes and idioms in the music of recognized giants such as Bizet, Strauss, and Paderewski, detailing the composersÕ use of scale, form, motivic presentations, and rhythmic tendencies, and also discusses the impact of Gypsy music on emerging national musical forms.

Author : Patryk Galuszka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000374580
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eastern European Music Industries and Policies after the Fall of Communism written by Patryk Galuszka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last thirty years Eastern Europe has been a place of radical political, economic, and social transformation, and these changes have affected the cultural industries of its countries. This volume consists of twelve chapters by leading international researchers. Stories are documented of various organisations that once dominated the ‘communist music industries’ — such as state-owned record companies, music festivals, and collecting societies. The strategies employed by artists and industries to join international music markets after the fall of communism are explained and evaluated. Political and economic transformations that coincided with the advent of digitalisation and the Internet intensified the changes. All these issues posed challenges both to record labels and artists who, after adjusting to the rules of the free-market economy, were faced with the falling record sales of records caused by the advent of new communication technologies. This book examines how these processes have all affected the music scene, industries, and markets in various Eastern European countries.

Author : Ewa Mazierska
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137592737
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Music in Eastern Europe written by Ewa Mazierska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores popular music in Eastern Europe during the period of state socialism, in countries such as Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Estonia and Albania. It discusses the policy concerning music, the greatest Eastern European stars, such as Karel Gott, Czesław Niemen and Omega, as well as DJs and the music press. By conducting original research, including interviews and examining archival material, the authors take issue with certain assumptions prevailing in the existing studies on popular music in Eastern Europe, namely that it was largely based on imitation of western music and that this music had a distinctly anti-communist flavour. Instead, they argue that self-colonisation was accompanied with creating an original idiom, and that the state not only fought the artists, but also supported them. The collection also draws attention to the foreign successes of Eastern European stars, both within the socialist bloc and outside of it. v>

Author : Robert Adlington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191760440
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Strains written by Robert Adlington and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of global communism has erased from memory the prior influence of communist ideology outside of the communist bloc. Many western musicians were involved in communist movements and organisations which often had a decisive impact upon their music. This book recalls the meeting of music and communism in societies outside of a communist state.

Author : Joanna Bullivant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107033365
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War written by Joanna Bullivant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study of British communist composer Alan Bush, providing new perspectives on music and politics during the Cold War.

Author : Roni Stauber
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789637326868
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roma: a Minority in Europe written by Roni Stauber and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The situation of the Roma in Europe, especially in the former communist states, is one of the more important human rights issues on the agenda of the international community, especially in the Euro-Atlantic bodies of integration. Within European states that have Roma populations there is a growing awareness that the matter must be confronted, and that there is a need for a concentrated effort to solve social problems and ease tensions between the Roma and the European nations among which they dwell. This volume is the result of an international conference held at Tel Aviv University in December 2002. The conference, one of the largest held among the academic community in the last decade, served as a unique forum for a multidisciplinary discussion on the past and present of the Roma in which both Roma and non-Roma scholars from various countries engaged.

Author : Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 : 9781564321688
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rights Denied written by Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1996 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE 1993 MINORITIES LAW