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

The Gypsy Caravan: From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music
ISBN-10
113587915X
ISBN-13
9781135879150
Category
Music
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2004-05
Publisher
Routledge
Author
David Malvinni

Description

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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