The Gypsy Caravan

From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music

Bibliographic Data

ID9389255
AuthorsDavid Malvinni (corresponding author)
Year2004
Publication date2004-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGypsy Caravan (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203490068
OpenAlexW4256202290
ISBN9780203490068
Open LibraryOL38636481M
LanguageEN
Citations received13

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

Geography · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Philippine History and Culture · Romani and Gypsy Studies · Country music · General · Genres & Styles · History and criticism · Music · Music, history and criticism · Romanies

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