Gypsy Caravan - From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music

Informationen zum Autor David Malvinni holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He teaches music courses at Santa Barbara City College, and has taught at UCSB. Klappentext First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: The Relative Neglect of Gypsy Music: Nationalism, Interest, and Advocacy in Musicology Chapter Two: Alms, Virgins, and Feuerzeichen: Literature's Place in Configuring Gypsiness Chapter Three: A Nineteenth-Century Tale of Two Others: Gypsy Improvisation and the Exotic Remainder Chapter Four: Nomads and the Rhizome: Becoming Gypsy Chapter Five: Brahms's Hungarian Dance no. 5 and the Dynamics of Exaggeration Chapter Six: The Poetics of Gypsiness in Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies Chapter Seven: Gypsies and Vol'nost' in Russian Music: Aleko Chapter Eight: Gypsy Pleroma: Janacek's Diary of One Who Disappeared Chapter Nine: The Specter of Bartók: From Hungarian Musicology to the Folk-Music Revival Chapter Ten: Gypsiness in Film Music: Spectacle and Act Chapter Eleven: O lunga drom: The Digital Migration of Gypsy Music Musical Examples Gypsy Music Discography References Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David Malvinni, Malvinni David
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 16.04.2004
• EAN: 9780415969994
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96999-4
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Altro; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Folk & traditional music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music