«These Songs Tell About Our Life, You See»: Music, Identity and Gender in Finnish Romani Music

by Kai Åberg

Overview

Underlying the songs of the Finnish Roma are historical depth and cultural and situational signification. Songs as tradition are in a state of continuous change and it is from this perspective that the features, nature and functions of music must be considered, chronologically and locally as part of the surrounding culture and its plurality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631653968
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	10/07/2015
Pages:	275
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kai Åberg is Adjunct Professor of the Study of Traditional Music at the Department of Finnish Language and Cultural Research, University of Eastern Finland. His special research interests are Finnish Romani music and music culture.

Table of Contents

Contents: Theoretical Approach: Themes, Concepts and Methods – The Finnish Roma (Kaale): History and culture – The Traditional Music of the Finnish Roma – Fieldwork and Scope of Empirical Data – Singers and Songs Telling about the Past – The Construction of Romani Community in Songs and Musical Concepts – The Sung Place – Place as Lived, Imagined and Described in Romani Songs – «Gypsy Dance» as a Stereotype – Mystery, Secrecy, Passion and Sex – The Aesthetics of Romani Singing – «Gypsy» Stereotypes and Self-Irony.