CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Pulay, Gergo |
|---|---|
| Title | Ethnicity, Performance and World Music. Cultural politics and musical practices of Roma performers in Hungary. |
| Summary | During the last two decades Roma musical styles has gone through numerous changes in Central and Eastern Europe. The effects of these can’t be assessed merely through altering musical performances and products in themselves, but also through the ways of shaping the relationships of the Roma with their broader social surroundings. The aim of this paper is to understand the ‘micro-politics’ of Roma music making in Hungary by placing such performances at the intersections of identity politics and the recent development of the world music field. In practical terms, it means to contextualize the music played by Roma as a form of expressive culture with respect to the networks of musical performance, production and reception. The category of world music is widely understood as an all-encompassing notion of ‘musical otherness’; and also as a recent market-force towards creating ‘mixed’ or ‘hybridized’ forms of music. My basic assumption is that musical practices can and should be interpreted as contributions to more explicit discourses on the ‘dispers al’, ‘recogni tion’, ‘modernization’, or ‘labeling’ of the Roma in our region. |
| Supervisor | Caglar, Ayse; Stewart, Michael |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/pulay_gergo.pdf |
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