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Manele in Romania : cultural expression and social meaning in Balkan popular music /

This edited volume examines manele (sg. 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 an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Beissinger, Margaret H., 1954- (Editor ), Rădulescu, Speranța (Editor ), Giurchescu, Anca (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Colección:Europea ; no. 21.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This edited volume examines manele (sg. 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" t
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781442267084
1442267089