Fifteen-year-old Oksana Marafioti is a Gypsy. This means touring with the family band from the Mongolian deserts to the Siberian tundra. It means getting your hair cut in zthe Lioness.y It also means enduring sneering racism from every segment of Soviet society. Her father is de…
Recounts the author's early experiences as a fifteen-year-old Gypsy emigrating with her family from the Soviet Union to the United States.
Recounts the author's early experiences as a fifteen-year-old Gypsy emigrating with her family from the Soviet Union to the United States.
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 function successfully within oppressive circumstances.
"After the end of socialism in Hungary, rapid change in the economy and society increased feelings of antagonism toward the country's largest minority, the Roma (sometimes called Gypsies). One notable exception to this atmosphere of animosity can be found in a special Pentecosta…
"After the end of socialism in Hungary, rapid change in the economy and society increased feelings of antagonism toward the country's largest minority, the Roma (sometimes called Gypsies). One notable exception to this atmosphere of animosity can be found in a special Pentecosta…
"After the end of socialism in Hungary, rapid change in the economy and society increased feelings of antagonism toward the country's largest minority, the Roma (sometimes called Gypsies). One notable exception to this atmosphere of animosity can be found in a special Pentecosta…
Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church is a musical ethnography of a religious community. After the end of socialism, different ethnic groups in Hungary harbored antagonism toward one another. In one Pentecostal church in Pecs, Hungary, however, both Hu…
The Rights of the Roma writes Romani struggles for citizenship into the history of human rights in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe. If Roma have typically appeared in human rights narratives as victims, Celia Donert here draws on extensive original research in Czech …
The Rights of the Roma writes Romani struggles for citizenship into the history of human rights in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe. If Roma have typically appeared in human rights narratives as victims, Celia Donert here draws on extensive original research in Czech …