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Romany culture is perhaps the most Indo-European of all. The ancestors of the Gypsies left India around 1000 years ago and mixed with every culture on the way to produce a variety of Romany dialects and well-known cultural achievements from Hungarian Gypsy music to the English Gypsy caravan. Such images somehow co-exist, however, with continuous persecution. This book provides a comparative account of Gypsy culture, art and music together with contemporary accounts of changes in education, health and religion. The text includes critical deconstruction of folklorism, illustrations of painted traditional caravans, and songs and extracts from musical scores.
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Strictly for Academics
14 Aug 2000
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This book is strictly for academics. It is not going to be useful to those seeking a broad or introductory overview of the Roma. It is essentially a series of academic theses on sometimes obscure elements of Roma studies. The first article is about wagon painting in England and the second about Gypsy folktales (and it is strictly ABOUT folktales without actually telling any folktales, but rather discussing the oral vs. written traditions, variants, genres, etc.) Pretty dry academic material.. The book is narrowly confined by geographic area, with most of its articles discussing only British Roma without useful extrapolation to Roma communities in other countries. If you're an advanced Roma scholar seeking copies of colleagues' works, this may be right for you. If you're interested in broader information about Roma society, better to read a different book.
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