Manele in Romania : Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music.

By:

Beissinger, Margaret

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (349 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781442267084

Subject(s):

Popular music - Social aspects - Romania

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Manele in RomaniaDDC classification:

781.62591

LOC classification:

ML3499.R6.M36 2016eb

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Contents:

Intro -- 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 Romania -- Chapter 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" to the Romanian national character. The essays collected here examine the "manea phenomenon" as a vibrant form of cultural expression that engages in several levels of social meaning, all informed by historical conditions, politics, aesthetics, tradition, ethnicity, gender, class, and geography.

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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" to the Romanian national character. The essays collected here examine the "manea phenomenon" as a vibrant form of cultural expression that engages in several levels of social meaning, all informed by historical conditions, politics, aesthetics, tradition, ethnicity, gender, class, and geography.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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