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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Figures; Contents of Website: manele-in-romania.ro; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on Pronunciation; Chapter 1. Music, Dance, Performance: A Descriptive Analysis of Manele; Chapter 2. A History of the Manea: The Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century; Chapter 3. How the Music of Manele Is Structured; Chapter 4. Romanian Manele and Regional Parallels: "Oriental" Ethnopop in the Balkans; Chapter 5. Actors and Performance; Chapter 6. The "Boyar in the Helicopter": Power, Parody, and Carnival in Manea Performances; Chapter 7. Manele and the Underworld.
  • Chapter 8. Village Manele: An Urban Genre in Rural RomaniaChapter 9. Turbo-Authenticity: An Essay on Manelism; Epilogue; References; Index; About the Editors and Contributors.