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Manele in Romania
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.
The Balkans and Caucasus
The overall character of the Black Sea region has been defined over time in various ways. For specialists in economy and trade, it has represented a region at the crossroads of the trade routes between Europe and Asia; for political scientists and historians, it has been a space of confrontation between the great terrestrial and naval powers; for the scholars attentive to its cultural dimensions, it has been a contact zone, a space of interaction between different peoples, religions and cultures. These attempts at a definition all revolve around an essential (and ambivalent) feature of the Black Sea as a factor of connection, a bridge, and at the same time a border, a dividing line between E...
Performing the 'New' Europe
This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers and limits of Europe are enacted.
The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans
The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region. The vibrant growth of this subject area since the 1990s has been intertwined with the region’s political and socio-economic transformations, including the collapse of state socialism in much of the region, the break-up of Yugoslavia, the advent of neoliberal capitalism, the rise of Romani activism, the complex politics of ‘Europeanization’ before and after the global financial crisis, and the region’s relationship to the European Union border regime. The handbook illustrates t...
Hipster Culture
Twenty-first century popular culture has given birth to a peculiar cultural figure: the hipster. Stereotypically associated with nerd glasses, beards and buns, boho clothing, and ironic T-shirts, hipsters represent a (post-)postmodern (post-)subculture whose style, aesthetics, and practices have increasingly become mainstream. Hipster Culture is the first comprehensive collection of original studies that address the hipster and hipster culture from a range of cultural studies perspectives. Analyzing the cultural, economic, aesthetic, and political meanings and implications of a wide range of phenomena prominently associated with hipster culture, the contributors bring their expertise and own...
Name and Naming
Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives aims to analyse names and the act of naming from an intercultural perspective, both synchronically and diachronically. The volume is divided into four main parts (Theory of Names, Anthroponomastics, Toponomastics, Names in Society), which are, in turn, organised into thematic chapters and subchapters. The book sets to offer a bird’s-eye view of names and naming; this synthesis is made possible, on the one hand, by the blending of synchronic and diachronic viewpoints in the investigation of language facts and, on the other, by the fruitful conjunction of modern and classic theories. The originality and the novelty of the subject lies in the multi-disciplinary approach, in which the field of onomastics merges with that of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics, history, literature, stylistics, religion, etc. The thematic diversity also derives from the meeting, within the pages of this book, of specialists (35 linguists and literati) from 11 countries on three continents.
Staging Citizenship
Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union’s most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on “performance” broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter’s settlement in Transylvania as they navigate precarious circumstances in a postsocialist state. Through accounts of music and dance performances, media representations, activism, and interactions with both non-governmental organizations and state agencies, author Ioana Szeman grounds broad themes of political economy, citizenship, resistance, and neoliberalism in her subjects’ remarkably varied lives and experiences.
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Muste pe parbrizul vietii
„Aţi pierdut o minunată ocazie de-a tăcea“, le-a spus Jacques Chirac liderilor polonezi în 2003, după ce aceştia susţinuseră intervenţia americană în Irak. Rămasă într-un pliu al istoriei recente, expresia li s-ar potrivi mănuşă emiţătorilor români de nerozii, pentru care notorietatea este, măcar de data asta, un dezavantaj. Pe o scenă unde personalităţile şi personulităţile convieţuiesc, într-un timp al dispreţului pentru limba română, pentru cultură şi pentru gândire, Muşte pe parbrizul vieţii măsoară amploarea derivei în care a intrat discursul public. Dincolo de râsul pe care-l provoacă una sau alta dintre perlele scoase în virtutea inepţie...
Seventh International Anthology on Paradoxism
Paradoxism was set up and led by Florentin Smarandache since 1980. Paradoxism is a literary, artistic, and scientific movement based on excessive use of antinomies, paradoxes, contradictions in creations. There are 34 writers from 6 countries who contributed to this anthology: - from Chile: Pablo NERUDA; - from Germany: Bernd HUTCHENREURTHER; - from India: B. VENKATESWARA RAO; - from Israel: Morel ABRAMOVICI; - from Romania: George ANCA, Marian APOSTOL, Adrian BOTEZ, Gheorghe BURDUŞEL, Eugen EVU, Sergiu GĂBUREAC, Dumitru HURUBĂ, Liviu-Florin JIANU, Ion MARINESCU - PUIU, Constantin MATEI, Mircea MONU, Doru MOTOC, Janet NICĂ, Gheorghe NICULESCU – URICANI, Octavian PALER, Tudor PĂROIU, Ion PĂTRAŞCU, Marinela PREOTEASA,Andrei RADU, Puiu RĂDUCAN, Adriana STOENESCU, Ion URDA; - from U.S.A.: Tom DEIKER, Greg HALL, Kyle REVERAL, Wm MEYER, Mary Ellen WALSH, Eric PIERZCHALA, Peter SPECKER - TWIXT, Florentin SMARANDACHE.
