Manele in Romania : Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
ISBN-10
1442267070
ISBN-13
9781442267077
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 8th, 2016
Print length
348 Pages
Weight
696 grams
Dimensions
23.80 x 29.30 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification:
Folk & traditional musicWorld musicTraditional and folk musicGlobal or regional music styles
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This edited volume examines manele (sing. 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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