Gypsy Fires in America
Author | : Irving Henry Brown |
Publisher | : New York : Harper |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Irving Henry Brown |
Publisher | : New York : Harper |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Irving Brown |
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Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Romanies |
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Author | : Irving Henry Brown |
Publisher | : New York : Harper |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Edna Evans |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595208975 |
As Wade Kincaid, a wealthy Texas rancher, is out checking water holes on his ranch, he has a chance meeting with a beautiful dancing Gypsy girl, Luana, who makes him momentarily forget his mentally ill wife, Stephanie. This meeting will change their lives forever.When Kincaid invites Luana and her family to stay on his ranch, how could he have known the many struggles that were ahead?
Author | : Anne Sutherland |
Publisher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 1986-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1478610417 |
The Gypsies portrayed in this book are the Vlax-speaking Rom, the largest group of Gypsies in the United States, numbering 500,000. Not officially recognized as a minority in the U.S. until 1972, Gypsies have led an almost entirely invisible existence here. Now in this fascinating workthe first complete account of American GypsiesSutherland has produced an in-depth look at the full range of everyday social life among the Rom. Separate, elusive, complex, and unique among the people of the world, Gypsies have preserved their traditional way of life. How have they avoided assimilation? What keeps them apart? How are they organized, and what do they believe? These and other important questions about these hidden Americans are addressed in Sutherlands contemporary study.
Author | : Mary Williams |
Publisher | : Dell Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1981-08-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780440128601 |
Author | : Paul M. Gifford |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2001-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1461672902 |
The last quarter of the twentieth-century saw a renewed interest in the hammered dulcimer in the United States at the grassroots level as well as from elements of the Folk Revival. This book offers the reader a discussion of the medieval origins of the dulcimer and its subsequent spread under many different names to other parts of the world. Drawing on articles the author has written in English as well as articles by specialists in their own languages, Gifford explains the history and evolution of the instrument. Special attention is paid to the North American tradition from the early 18th-century to the 1970s revival. Drawing from local histories, news clippings, photographs, and interviews, the book examines the playing of the dulcimer and its associated social meanings.
Author | : Brian Belton |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780759105331 |
Brian Belton's powerfully original book examines Gypsy lives against the framework of social theories that illustrate how identity arises out of the cultural complexity of individual biographies, families, and communities. Addressing the lack of contextual and social perspectives in the existing literature and the underlying assumption of a consistent Gypsy lineage, he explores the subject of identity to include the broader social context in which the population exists. He argues that Gypsy identity is created and maintained not only by tradition and heredity, but also by social and ideological factors that give rise to the "ethnic narrative" of Gypsy identity. Growing up in an English Gypsy family, Belton offers a unique "outsider-insider" perspective to Questioning Gypsy Identity, writing what are essentially stories of people--how they are made, their social force, and what they collectively create.
Author | : Alaina Lemon |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2000-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082238132X |
Since tsarist times, Roma in Russia have been portrayed as both rebellious outlaws and free-spirited songbirds—in each case, as if isolated from society. In Soviet times, Russians continued to harbor these two, only seemingly opposed, views of “Gypsies,” exalting their songs on stage but scorning them on the streets as liars and cheats. Alaina Lemon’s Between Two Fires examines how Roma themselves have negotiated these dual images in everyday interactions and in stage performances. Lemon’s ethnographic study is based on extensive fieldwork in 1990s Russia and focuses on Moscow Romani Theater actors as well as Romani traders and metalworkers. Drawing from interviews with Roma and Russians, observations of performances, and conversations, as well as archives, literary texts, and media, Lemon analyzes the role of theatricality and theatrical tropes in Romani life and the everyday linguistics of social relations and of memory. Historically, the way Romani stage performance has been culturally framed and positioned in Russia has served to typecast Gypsies as “natural” performers, she explains. Thus, while theatrical and musical performance may at times empower Roma, more often it has reinforced and rationalized racial and social stereotypes, excluding them from many Soviet and Russian economic and political arenas. Performance, therefore, defines what it means to be Romani in Russia differently than it does elsewhere, Lemon shows. Considering formal details of language as well as broader cultural and social structures, she also discusses how racial categories relate to post-Soviet economic changes, how gender categories and Euro-Soviet notions of civility are connected, and how ontological distinctions between “stage art” and “real life” contribute to the making of social types. This complex study thus serves as a corrective to romantic views of Roma as detached from political forces.