Manele in Romania : cultural expression and social meaning in Balkan popular music / edited by Margaret H. Beissinger, Speranta Radulescu, Anca Giurchescu.

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9781442267084
1442267089

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Manele in Romania.DDC classification:

781.62/591 23

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ML3499.R6

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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.

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