1st Edition
The Gypsy Caravan From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music
By David Malvinni
Copyright 2004
288 Pages
35 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
288 Pages
35 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
288 Pages
35 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: The Relative Neglect of Gypsy Music: Nationalism, Interest, and Advocacy in Musicology Chapter Two: Alms, Virgins, and Feuerzeichen: Literature's Place in Configuring Gypsiness Chapter Three: A Nineteenth-Century Tale of Two Others: Gypsy Improvisation and the Exotic Remainder Chapter Four: Nomads and the Rhizome: Becoming Gypsy Chapter Five: Brahms's Hungarian Dance no. 5 and the Dynamics of Exaggeration Chapter Six: The Poetics of Gypsiness in Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies Chapter Seven: Gypsies and Vol'nost' in Russian Music: Aleko Chapter Eight: Gypsy Pleroma: Janacek's Diary of One Who Disappeared Chapter Nine: The Specter of Bartók: From Hungarian Musicology to the Folk-Music Revival Chapter Ten: Gypsiness in Film Music: Spectacle and Act Chapter Eleven: O lunga drom: The Digital Migration of Gypsy Music Musical Examples Gypsy Music Discography References Index
Biography
David Malvinni holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He teaches music courses at Santa Barbara City College, and has taught at UCSB.
