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Music, City and the Roma under Communism

Autor Professor or Dr. Anna G. Piotrowska
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 aug 2023
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501380853
ISBN-10: 1501380850
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Discusses well-known Romani musician Corroro and his wider contribution to the Romani music landscape

Notă biografică

Anna G. Piotrowska is Professor of Musicology at Jagiellonian University, Poland. She is author of several books including From Gypsy to Bohemian (2021) and Gypsy Music in European Culture (2013). In the years 2019-2022, she was one of four Principal Investigators on the BESTROM project (Beyond Stereotypes: Cultural Exchanges and the Romani Contribution to European Spaces).

Cuprins

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentPrologue: In the Circle of the Official and Personal MemoriesPart I: City and Music1.1. The Tradition of Music-Making in the Streets1.2. Romani Music-Making in Central and Eastern Europe1.3. Romani Musicians in the Cities: Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest Part II Roma and Communism2.1. The Roma in Communistic Poland: The Case of Nowa Huta2.2. Romani Musicians from Nowa Huta: Traditions versus New Expectations2.3. Romani State-Supported Ensembles: On the example of ROMA from KrakówPart III The Story of Corroro3.1. The Situation of Romani Buskers in Kraków: The Significance of the Late 1970s 3.2. The Case of Corroro: A Romani Virtuoso in Communistic Times3.3. The Myth of a Disabled GeniusEpilogue: Post-1989 RealityBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Piotrowska devotes entire chapters to prized musicians and folk heroes that arose during this time. She uses their music and writing to guide their stories. Her photos of these musicians are captivating.
This is a highly significant contribution to the field of Romani music research. Its microhistorical focus on one European urban location at one particular time - Krakow during Communist rule - allows the author to reveal not just how complex (indeed, how polyphonic) but also how culturally strategic the daily activity of Romani musicians was in this context. Putting her personal familiarity with the city to good advantage, the author's extensive research overcomes the hitherto scarce source material on Romani music-making in this period to provide herself, and us, with a richly detailed body of original material for discussion and analysis, in which the case-study of the virtuoso Romani busker Corroro in particular stands out.
Already a noted authority on the presence of Romani practices in European art music since the eighteenth century, Anna G. Piotrowska now offers a richly textured, nuanced, and largely unfamiliar portrait of the Romani music making in her native Kraków under the Communist regime, contrasting the activities of the state-sponsored folkloric ensemble with those of the proliferating unofficial street bands, each devising its individual strategy of survival and each carving some independent space for itself under politically coercive circumstances.
A fascinating read. Well-informed and enriched by participant observation, Music, City, and the Roma Under Communism is a milestone in an interdisciplinary field, where ethnomusicology, popular music studies, oral history, and urban anthropology converge. Piotrowska's book leads us in an investigation into the ideas of "pure" and "impure" music in Europe, where the latter is reappraised in light of the long struggle for visibility, recognition, and respect by the Romani.
Anna G. Piotrowska succeeds, with a brilliantly written study, to unfold the history of the Romani musicians of Kraków in a larger historical context by interrelating the Central and Eastern European developments of Roma music of cities like Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest. The main focus is on Lovara and Carpathian Romani musicians in Kraków, the cultural capital of Poland. The insight analysis of various voices is underscored by theoretical reflections on minorities in the urban environment of the communist regime from the post-war period until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.