Music In The Balkans

Author : Jim Samson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789004250383

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Music in the Balkans by Jim Samson Pdf

This book asks how a study of many different musics in South East Europe can help us understand the construction of cultural traditions, East and West. It crosses boundaries of many kinds, political, cultural, repertorial and disciplinary. Above all, it seeks to elucidate the relationship between politics and musical practice in a region whose art music has been all but written out of the European story and whose traditional music has been subject to appropriation by one ideology after another. South East Europe, with its mix of ethnicities and religions, presents an exceptionally rich field of study in this respect. The book will be of value to anyone interested in intersections between pre-modern and modern cultures, between empires and nations and between culture and politics.

Author : Carol Silverman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199910229

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Romani Routes by Carol Silverman Pdf

Now that the political and economic plight of European Roma and the popularity of their music are objects of international attention, Romani Routes provides a timely and insightful view into Romani communities both in their home countries and in the diaspora. Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, festivals, and concerts has presented the music of Balkan Gypsies, or Roma, to Western audiences, who have greeted them with exceptional enthusiasm. Yet, as author Carol Silverman notes, Roma are revered as musicians and reviled as people. In this book, Silverman introduces readers to the people and cultures who produce this music, offering a sensitive and incisive analysis of how Romani musicians address the challenges of discrimination. Focusing on southeastern Europe then moving to the diaspora, her book examines the music within Romani communities, the lives and careers of outstanding musicians, and the marketing of music in the electronic media and "world music" concert circuit. Silverman touches on the way that the Roma exemplify many qualities--adaptability, cultural hybridity, transnationalism--that are taken to characterize late modern experience. And rather than just celebrating these qualities, she presents the musicians as complicated, pragmatic individuals who work creatively within the many constraints that inform their lives.

Author : Donna A. Buchanan
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810866775

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Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene by Donna A. Buchanan Pdf

Since the early twentieth century, 'balkanization' has signified the often militant fracturing of territories, states, or groups along ethnic, religious, and linguistic divides. Yet the remarkable similarities found among contemporary Balkan popular music reveal the region as the site of a thriving creative dialogue and interchange. The eclectic interweaving of stylistic features evidenced by Albanian commercial folk music, Anatolian pop, Bosnian sevdah-rock, Bulgarian pop-folk, Greek ethniki mousike, Romanian muzica orientala, Serbian turbo folk, and Turkish arabesk, to name a few, points to an emergent regional popular culture circuit extending from southeastern Europe through Greece and Turkey. While this circuit is predicated upon older cultural confluences from a shared Ottoman heritage, it also has taken shape in active counterpoint with a variety of regional political discourses. Containing eleven ethnographic case studies, Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse examines the interplay between the musicians and popular music styles of the Balkan states during the late 1990s. These case studies, each written by an established regional expert, encompass a geographical scope that includes Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Greece, Turkey, Serbia, and Montenegro. The book is accompanied by a VCD that contains a photo gallery, sound files, and music video excerpts.

Author : Charles Keil,Angeliki Keil
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819564887

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Bright Balkan Morning by Charles Keil,Angeliki Keil Pdf

CD contains: Market Day in Jumaya -- Afternoon at Mahala Café -- At home in Mahala -- At church, Sunday, December 31 -- Pre-New Year's parties in Serres -- Parties for the new year in Sohos -- Taverna party at Nikisiani -- The road home.

Author : Richard March
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299296032

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The Tamburitza Tradition by Richard March Pdf

The Tamburitza Tradition is a lively and well-illustrated comprehensive introduction to a Balkan folk music that now also thrives in communities throughout Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Tamburitza features acoustic stringed instruments, ranging in size from tamburas as small as a ukulele to ones as large as a bass viol. Folklorist Richard March documents the centuries-old origins and development of the tradition, including its intertwining with nationalist and ethnic symbolism. The music survived the complex politics of nineteenth-century Europe but remains a point of contention today. In Croatia, tamburitza is strongly associated with national identity and supported by an artistic and educational infrastructure. Serbia is proud of its outstanding performers and composers who have influenced tamburitza bands on four continents. In the United States, tamburitza was brought by Balkan immigrants in the nineteenth century and has become a flourishing American ethnic music with its own set of representational politics. Combining historical research with in-depth interviews and extensive participant-observer description, The Tamburitza Tradition reveals a dynamic and expressive music tradition on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond, illuminating the cultures and societies from which it has emerged.

Author : Margaret Beissinger,Speranta Radulescu,Anca Giurchescu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442267084

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Manele in Romania by Margaret Beissinger,Speranta Radulescu,Anca Giurchescu Pdf

This edited volume examines manele (sing. manea), an urban Romanian song-dance ethnopop genre that combines local traditional and popular music with Balkan and Middle Eastern elements. The genre is performed primarily by male Romani musicians at weddings and clubs and appeals especially to Romanian and Romani youth. It became immensely popular after the collapse of communism, representing for many the newly liberated social conditions of the post-1989 world. But manele have also engendered much controversy among the educated and professional elite, who view the genre as vulgar and even “alien” to the Romanian national character. The essays collected here examine the “manea phenomenon” as a vibrant form of cultural expression that engages in several levels of social meaning, all informed by historical conditions, politics, aesthetics, tradition, ethnicity, gender, class, and geography.

Author : Ivana Medić,Katarina Tomašević
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8680639230

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Beyond the East-west Divide by Ivana Medić,Katarina Tomašević Pdf

Author : Danijela Š. Beard,Ljerka V. Rasmussen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315452319

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Made in Yugoslavia by Danijela Š. Beard,Ljerka V. Rasmussen Pdf

Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of popular music in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book consists of chapters by leading scholars and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of music in the region that for most of the past century was known as Yugoslavia. Exploring the role played by music in Yugoslav art, culture, social movements, and discourses of statehood, this book offers a gateway into scholarly explanation of a key region in Eastern Europe. An introduction provides an overview and background on popular music in Yugoslavia, followed by chapters in four thematic sections: Zabavna-Pop; Rock, Punk, and New Wave; Narodna (Folk) and Neofolk Music; and the Politics of Popular Music Under Socialism.

Author : Costel Pusciou
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781619112360

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Recorder Solos On Balkan Folk Songs and Dances by Costel Pusciou Pdf

Recorder/Solos. A small, but representative collection of well-known and lesser-known beautiful melodies from the Balkans. the carefully-chosen melodies offer a rich, enjoyable and varied book. the arrangements and other adaptations (keys, ornaments, etc.) have been introduced to make this beautiful South-Eastern European music more suitable for performance on the recorder. It is recommended to repeat each piece 3-4 times because the melodies (like all folk songs in the world) are very short. A free piano accompaniment plus audio downloads are available for use with this title. Free audio files and piano accompaniment available.

Author : David W. Montgomery
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253038197

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Everyday Life in the Balkans by David W. Montgomery Pdf

Everyday Life in the Balkans gathers the work of leading scholars across disciplines to provide a broad overview of the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey. This region has long been characterized as a place of instability and political turmoil, from World War I, through the Yugoslav Wars, and even today as debate continues over issues such as the influx of refugees or the expansion of the European Union. However, the work gathered here moves beyond the images of war and post-socialist stagnation which dominate Western media coverage of the region to instead focus on the lived experiences of the people in these countries. Contributors consider a wide range of issues including family dynamics, gay rights, war memory, religion, cinema, fashion, and politics. Using clear language and engaging examples, Everyday Life in the Balkans provides the background context necessary for an enlightened conversation about the policies, economics, and culture of the region.

Author : COSTEL PUSCOIU
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610656832

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Folk Songs & Dances From the Balkans - Flute Edition by COSTEL PUSCOIU Pdf

FOLK SONGS AND DANCES FROM THE BALKANS - FLUTE EDITION is a small, but representative collection of well-known and lesser-known beautiful melodies from the Balkans. the carefully chosen the melodies offer a rich, enjoyable and varied book. the arrangements and other adaptations (keys, ornaments, etc.) have been introduced to make this beautiful South-Eastern European music more suitable for performance on the flute. It is recommended to repeat each piece 3-4 times because the melodies (like all folk songs in the world) are very short.The PDF accompaniments and playback tracks are available at: www.melbay.com/98527BCD.

Author : Dimitris Tziovas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351932189

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Greece and the Balkans by Dimitris Tziovas Pdf

Greece and the Balkans explores the cultural relationships between Greece and other Balkan countries in the domains of language, literature, thought, translation, and music, and examines issues of identity and perception among the Balkan peoples themselves. The essays bring together scholars from across a range of disciplines: historians, anthropologists, linguists and musicologists with specialists on literature, translation, the history of ideas and religion. By raising issues of cultural hybridity, and nationalist or pre-nationalist interpretations of culture and history it lays claim to a place in the context of studies on nationalism and post-colonialism. Greece and the Balkans also contributes to a recognition of the Balkans as a site, like some postcolonial ones, where identities have become fused, orientalism and eurocentrism blurred and where religion and modernity clashed and co-existed. By approaching cultural encounters between Greece and the Balkans from a fresh and informed perspective, it makes a substantial contribution to the study of a rather neglected aspect in the history of a region which has suffered in the past from narrow-minded, nationalistic arguments.

Author : Mirjana Lausevic
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190269425

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Balkan Fascination by Mirjana Lausevic Pdf

Divi Zheni identifies itself as a Bulgarian women's chorus and band, but it is located in Boston and none of its members come from Bulgaria. Zlatne Uste is one of the most popular purveyors of Balkan music in America, yet the name of the band is grammatically incorrect. The members of Sviraci hail from western Massachusetts, upstate New York, and southern Vermont, but play tamburica music on traditional instruments. Curiously, thousands of Americans not only participate in traditional music and dance from the Balkans, but in fact structure their social practices around it without having any other ties to the region. In Balkan Fascination, ethnomusicologist Mirjana Lausevic, a native of the Balkans, investigates this remarkable phenomenon to explore why so many Americans actively participate in specific Balkan cultural practices to which they have no familial or ethnic connection. Going beyond traditional interpretations, she challenges the notion that participation in Balkan culture in North America is merely a specialized offshoot of the 1960s American folk music scene. Instead, her exploration of the relationship between the stark sounds and lively dances of the Balkan region and the Americans who love them reveals that Balkan dance and music has much deeper roots in America's ideas about itself, its place in the world, and the place of the world's cultures in the American melting pot. Examining sources that span more than a century and come from both sides of the Atlantic, Lausevic shows that an affinity group's debt to historical movements and ideas, though largely unknown to its members, is vital in understanding how and why people make particular music and dance choices that substantially change their lives.

Author : Sokol Shupo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131812534

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Art Music in the Balkans by Sokol Shupo Pdf

Author : Alan Ashton-Smith
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781780238654

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Gypsy Music by Alan Ashton-Smith Pdf

Gypsies have for centuries been simultaneously vilified and romanticized—associated with criminality and dirt, but at the same time with color, magic, and music. Gypsy music is popular around the world and often performed with gusto at major events, including at weddings in Bulgaria, jazz bars in Paris, and festivals in the United States. In Gypsy Music, Alan Ashton-Smith explores why this music has such wide appeal, surveying the varied styles that are considered to be gypsy music and asking what links them together. The book begins in the Balkans, home to the world’s largest Romani populations and a major site of gypsy music production. But just as the traditionally nomadic Roma have traveled globally, so has their music. Gypsy music styles have roots and associations outside of the Balkans, including Russian Romani guitar music, flamenco and gypsy jazz, and the more recent forms of gypsy punk and Balkan beats. Covering the thirteenth century to the present day, and with a geographical scope that ranges from rural Romania to New York by way of Budapest, Moscow, and Andalusia, Gypsy Music reveals the remarkable diversity of this exuberant art form.