Manele in Romania. Cultural Expression a
✍ Margaret Beissinger, Speranța Rădulescu, Anca Giurchescu
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📅 2016
🏛 Rowman & Littlefield
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Manele in Romania: Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music
✍ Scribed by Margaret Beissinger (editor), Speranta Rădulescu (editor), Anca Giurchescu (editor)
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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
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Contents of Website
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction • Margaret Beissinger
A Note on Pronunciation
1 Music, Dance, Performance: A Descriptive Analysis of Manele • Anca Giurchescu and Speranţa Rădulescu
2 A History of the Manea: The Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century • Costin Moisil
3 How the Music of Manele Is Structured • Speranţa Rădulescu
4 Romanian Manele and Regional Parallels: “Oriental” Ethnopop in the Balkans • Margaret Beissinger
5 Actors and Performance • Speranţa Rădulescu
6 The “Boyar in the Helicopter”: Power, Parody, and Carnival in Manea Performances • Victor Alexandre Stoichiţă
7 Manele and the Underworld • Adrian Schiop
8 Village Manele: An Urban Genre in Rural Romania • Margaret Beissinger
9 Turbo-Authenticity: An Essay on Manelism • Vintilă Mihăilescu
Epilogue • Speranţa Rădulescu
References
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
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