Manele in Romania
Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music
Manele in Romania
Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music
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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.
Table of Contents
Speranta Radulescu and Anca Giurchescu
Chapter 2: “A History of the Manea: The 19th to the Mid-20th Century”
Costin Moisil
Chapter 3: “Actors and Performance”
Anca Giurchescu and Speranta Radulescu
Chapter 4: “How the Music of Manele is Structured”
Speranta Radulescu
Chapter 5: “Village Manele: An Urban Genre in Rural Romania”
Margaret Beissinger
Chapter 6: “Manele and Regional Parallels: Ethnopop in the Balkans”
Margaret Beissinger
Chapter 7:“Manele and the Underworld”
Adrian Schiop
Chapter 8: “'Boyar in the Helicopter': Power, Parody, and Carnival in Manea Performances”
Victor Stoichita
Chapter 9: “Turbo-Authenticity: An Essay about 'Manelism'”
Vintila Mihailescu
Epilogue
Speranta Radulescu
Product details
| Published | 08 Aug 2016 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 348 |
| ISBN | 9781442267077 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Illustrations | 23 b/w photos; |
| Dimensions | 238 x 157 mm |
| Series | Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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