Petr Nuska
Biographic Data
| ID | 4377406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petr Nuska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petr |
| FAMILY NAME | Nuska |
| SIGNATURE | NUSKA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2239-7072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ethnographic motion picture as picture in motion
This article offers a self-reflexive commentary on a methodology developed in the making of Hopa lide (2023), a feature-length ethnographic documentary produced by the author in collaboration with Romani musicians in Slovakia. The article reflects on how movement functioned as a methodological, aesthetic, and epistemological principle within this specific project, and argues that, despite its centrality to ethnographic filmmaking, movement remain…
The documentary film Hopa lide
The article concerns the ethnographic documentary film Hopa lide , which stems from the author's ten years of ethnographic research among Romani musicians in Slovakia. The film is based on documenting the collaborative making of music videos. Firstly, the article critically reflects on Romani representation in contemporary documentary films, arguing that it is often distorted due to tendencies toward exoticization, the monopoly of the non‐Romani …
An anatomy of musical blood
This article explores the phenomenon of ‘musical blood’ using the case of Slovak Roma to challenge both the specific myth of innate Romani musicality and the broader assumption that musical ability is genetically inheritable within ethnic groups. Rather than debunking racist ideas about primordially assigned ethnic features, the article advocates for a more nuanced and scholarly approach to understanding how musical abilities are constructed, per…
Performance of Romani ethnicity in Klenovec
On the basis of long-term ethnographic research (2013–2019) with the community of Romani musicians in Klenovec (Slovakia), this article develops an inductive theoretical model explaining distinct features in the local performance of Romani ethnicity. It discusses the theory of ethnicity construction through the lens of exclusion processes involving the non-Romani majority – the pariahdom boundary – and the Romani adaptation to the conditions of t…
Performance of Romani ethnicity in Klenovec
On the basis of long-term ethnographic research (2013–2019) with the community of Romani musicians in Klenovec (Slovakia), this article develops an inductive theoretical model explaining distinct features in the local performance of Romani ethnicity. It discusses the theory of ethnicity construction through the lens of exclusion processes involving the non-Romani majority – the pariahdom boundary – and the Romani adaptation to the conditions of t…
Performance of Romani ethnicity in Klenovec
On the basis of long-term ethnographic research (2013–2019) with the community of Romani musicians in Klenovec (Slovakia), this article develops an inductive theoretical model explaining distinct features in the local performance of Romani ethnicity. It discusses the theory of ethnicity construction through the lens of exclusion processes involving the non-Romani majority – the pariahdom boundary – and the Romani adaptation to the conditions of t…
An anatomy of musical blood
This article explores the phenomenon of ‘musical blood’ using the case of Slovak Roma to challenge both the specific myth of innate Romani musicality and the broader assumption that musical ability is genetically inheritable within ethnic groups. Rather than debunking racist ideas about primordially assigned ethnic features, the article advocates for a more nuanced and scholarly approach to understanding how musical abilities are constructed, per…
Ethnographic motion picture as picture in motion
This article offers a self-reflexive commentary on a methodology developed in the making of Hopa lide (2023), a feature-length ethnographic documentary produced by the author in collaboration with Romani musicians in Slovakia. The article reflects on how movement functioned as a methodological, aesthetic, and epistemological principle within this specific project, and argues that, despite its centrality to ethnographic filmmaking, movement remain…
The documentary film Hopa lide
The article concerns the ethnographic documentary film Hopa lide , which stems from the author's ten years of ethnographic research among Romani musicians in Slovakia. The film is based on documenting the collaborative making of music videos. Firstly, the article critically reflects on Romani representation in contemporary documentary films, arguing that it is often distorted due to tendencies toward exoticization, the monopoly of the non‐Romani …
Ethnography (3 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (1 work)