Margaret H Beissinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret H Beissinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret H |
| FAMILY NAME | Beissinger |
| SIGNATURE | BEISSINGER M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-1703-5821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore
This handbook provides a wide-ranging survey of the oral traditions of the Slavic and east European world. It covers national, ethnic, racial, religious, and linguistic groups from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics, central Europe, and the Balkans, including Muslim, Jewish, and Romani minority communities. The volume contains five large thematic sections: the folklore and song genres of the life cycle (wedding, birth, and death rites); calend…
A roundtable on Natalie Kononenko’s Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity
European American music
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma is an important contribution to Romani studies and research in anthropology, ethnography, and folklore, especially material culture. Based on long-term fieldwork, Péter Berta conducted multi-sited ethnographic research in Romanian Transylvania, primarily among the Gabor Roma. He tells a fascinating tale of traditional Roma and their intricate relationships wit…
In Memoriam
In Memoriam
Lăutar Space: Marriage, Weddings, and Identity among Romani Musicians in Romania
This article treats, through the lens of marriage and nuptial practices, how lăutari (professional male Romani musicians who perform at Romanian weddings) and their families self-identify as Romanianized Roma. Lăutari assume hybrid forms of identity, drawing on both traditional Romani and mainstream Romanian culture as they perpetually create and recreate their own composite sense of “lǎutar space.” Lăutari, like many Roma, preserve basic norms o…
Gender, ethnicity, and education in lăutar (Romani musician) families in Romania: Personal and professional strategies for twenty-first-century life choices
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, I explore how gender, ethnic identity, and education inform career, marriage, and family in the lives of sons and daughters of lăutari (professional Romani musicians) at the intersection of traditional Romani and contemporary Romanian society. Sons are socialized to adopt the occupation of their fathers, becoming professional musicians who will support future families; they perpetuate traditional lăutar …
Martha Forsyth, Slushaĩ shterko, i dobre zampomni … Pecnite i zhivota na Linka Gekova Gergova ot selo Bistritsa Sofiĩsko
Report on the Balkan Summer Seminar, June 1999
Romani (Gypsy) Music-Making at Weddings in Post-Communist Romania: Political Transitions and Cultural Adaptations
Anyone attending a traditional wedding in Romania during the communist period, such as in the 1970s or '80s, and returning to such a celebration during the 1990s or early 2000s would immediately notice that, although structurally the wedding ritual proceeds more or less the same now as before, the non-ritual music and dance that currently form part of the festivities are significantly different. Amplified instruments in many cases have replaced a…
Recent Books: Romanian Folklore
Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Postsocialism
United States of America
Teaching Oral Traditions (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 454, Fall 2001
Gender and Power in the Balkan Return Song
L'A. examine les chants des Balkans comme des narratifs correspondant aux normes sociales et confortant le comportement et les roles traditionnels des hommes en tant que maris et patriarches et des femmes en tant qu'epouses, belles-filles et meres. Tandis que les ecrits sur les chants musulmans en serbo-croate sont nombreux, cette recherche se penche plus particulierement sur l'analyse structurelle et comparative de la composition. Le conte popul…
Occupation and Ethnicity: Constructing Identity among Professional Romani (Gypsy) Musicians in Romania
Based on fieldwork (primarily in southern Romania), this article treats identity-construction among professional male Romani musicians, investigating in particular the discourse that they generate as they maintain their exclusive vocational niche on the boundaries of intersecting ethnic communities. Seeking to establish the influence of Romani musicians as agents in the construction of their own identity, Beissinger discusses notions that Romani …
Teaching Oral Traditions
Recent Books on Serbian Folklore
Modern social science, shaped by a positivist epistemology, tends to separate facts from values, so religion is often placed outside the realm of legitimate social knowledge, even though in many Muslim societies it continues to shape norms, authority, and public life. This study aims to reconstruct Kuntowijoyo’s Prophetic Social Science as a conceptual-analytical framework within contemporary Islamic social theory. This research is a conceptual p…
Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community
The Singer Resumes the Tale
The Uses of Tradition: A Comparative Enquiry into the Nature, Uses and Functions of Oral Poetry in the Balkans, the Baltic, and Africa
process and to the reception of that tradition elsewhere in the world.The second part looks at how scholars closest to the South Slav tradition view the tradition today and the way in which Karadzic shaped it.Their approach, and that of the authors in the third part -'The Comparative Dimension' -who all come from outside the South Slav tradition, demonstrates the universality of theme, genre, composition, performance and poetics of the South Slav…
Theme in Oral Epic and Beowulf
Serbo-Croatian Heroic Poems: Epics from Bihac, Cazin, and Kulen Vakuf
Lirica de dragoste: Index motivic si tipologic
Prince Marko: The Hero of South Slavic Epics
Occupation and Ethnicity: Constructing Identity among Professional Romani (Gypsy) Musicians in Romania
Based on fieldwork (primarily in southern Romania), this article treats identity-construction among professional male Romani musicians, investigating in particular the discourse that they generate as they maintain their exclusive vocational niche on the boundaries of intersecting ethnic communities. Seeking to establish the influence of Romani musicians as agents in the construction of their own identity, Beissinger discusses notions that Romani …
Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community
Gender, ethnicity, and education in lăutar (Romani musician) families in Romania: Personal and professional strategies for twenty-first-century life choices
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, I explore how gender, ethnic identity, and education inform career, marriage, and family in the lives of sons and daughters of lăutari (professional Romani musicians) at the intersection of traditional Romani and contemporary Romanian society. Sons are socialized to adopt the occupation of their fathers, becoming professional musicians who will support future families; they perpetuate traditional lăutar …
Lectura textului folcloric
Prince Marko: The Hero of South Slavic Epics
The Wedding of the Dead: Ritual, Poetics, and Popular Culture in Transylvania
Lirica de dragoste: Index motivic si tipologic
Serbo-Croatian Heroic Poems: Epics from Bihac, Cazin, and Kulen Vakuf
The Uses of Tradition: A Comparative Enquiry into the Nature, Uses and Functions of Oral Poetry in the Balkans, the Baltic, and Africa
process and to the reception of that tradition elsewhere in the world.The second part looks at how scholars closest to the South Slav tradition view the tradition today and the way in which Karadzic shaped it.Their approach, and that of the authors in the third part -'The Comparative Dimension' -who all come from outside the South Slav tradition, demonstrates the universality of theme, genre, composition, performance and poetics of the South Slav…
Theme in Oral Epic and Beowulf
The Singer Resumes the Tale
Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community
Recent Books on Serbian Folklore
Modern social science, shaped by a positivist epistemology, tends to separate facts from values, so religion is often placed outside the realm of legitimate social knowledge, even though in many Muslim societies it continues to shape norms, authority, and public life. This study aims to reconstruct Kuntowijoyo’s Prophetic Social Science as a conceptual-analytical framework within contemporary Islamic social theory. This research is a conceptual p…
United States of America
Teaching Oral Traditions (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 454, Fall 2001
Gender and Power in the Balkan Return Song
L'A. examine les chants des Balkans comme des narratifs correspondant aux normes sociales et confortant le comportement et les roles traditionnels des hommes en tant que maris et patriarches et des femmes en tant qu'epouses, belles-filles et meres. Tandis que les ecrits sur les chants musulmans en serbo-croate sont nombreux, cette recherche se penche plus particulierement sur l'analyse structurelle et comparative de la composition. Le conte popul…
Occupation and Ethnicity: Constructing Identity among Professional Romani (Gypsy) Musicians in Romania
Based on fieldwork (primarily in southern Romania), this article treats identity-construction among professional male Romani musicians, investigating in particular the discourse that they generate as they maintain their exclusive vocational niche on the boundaries of intersecting ethnic communities. Seeking to establish the influence of Romani musicians as agents in the construction of their own identity, Beissinger discusses notions that Romani …
Teaching Oral Traditions
Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Postsocialism
Martha Forsyth, Slushaĩ shterko, i dobre zampomni … Pecnite i zhivota na Linka Gekova Gergova ot selo Bistritsa Sofiĩsko
Report on the Balkan Summer Seminar, June 1999
Romani (Gypsy) Music-Making at Weddings in Post-Communist Romania: Political Transitions and Cultural Adaptations
Anyone attending a traditional wedding in Romania during the communist period, such as in the 1970s or '80s, and returning to such a celebration during the 1990s or early 2000s would immediately notice that, although structurally the wedding ritual proceeds more or less the same now as before, the non-ritual music and dance that currently form part of the festivities are significantly different. Amplified instruments in many cases have replaced a…
Recent Books: Romanian Folklore
Gender, ethnicity, and education in lăutar (Romani musician) families in Romania: Personal and professional strategies for twenty-first-century life choices
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, I explore how gender, ethnic identity, and education inform career, marriage, and family in the lives of sons and daughters of lăutari (professional Romani musicians) at the intersection of traditional Romani and contemporary Romanian society. Sons are socialized to adopt the occupation of their fathers, becoming professional musicians who will support future families; they perpetuate traditional lăutar …
In Memoriam
In Memoriam
Lăutar Space: Marriage, Weddings, and Identity among Romani Musicians in Romania
This article treats, through the lens of marriage and nuptial practices, how lăutari (professional male Romani musicians who perform at Romanian weddings) and their families self-identify as Romanianized Roma. Lăutari assume hybrid forms of identity, drawing on both traditional Romani and mainstream Romanian culture as they perpetually create and recreate their own composite sense of “lǎutar space.” Lăutari, like many Roma, preserve basic norms o…
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma is an important contribution to Romani studies and research in anthropology, ethnography, and folklore, especially material culture. Based on long-term fieldwork, Péter Berta conducted multi-sited ethnographic research in Romanian Transylvania, primarily among the Gabor Roma. He tells a fascinating tale of traditional Roma and their intricate relationships wit…
European American music
Art (17 works) · History (15 works) · Literature (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Law (5 works)