[Folkserv] Fw: [PUBLORE] Balkan Romani Music and Dance: Heritage, Profession, Commodity-- illustrated Zoom lecture Feb 24, 4 PM PST

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Balkan Romani Music and Dance: Heritage, Profession, Commodity
Illustrated lecture, Thursday Feb 24, 4 PM PST by Carol Silverman
Donations to the sponsor, Folk Arts Center of New England, are welcome

In the last 30 years the popularity of Balkan "Gypsy” music and dance has exploded,  becoming staples at world music festivals, dance clubs, and folk dance events in Western Europe and North and South America. At the same time, thousands of Balkan Roma have emigrated westward due to deteriorating living conditions, and entrenched stereotypes of criminality have arisen amidst deportations and harassment. In this heightened atmosphere of xenophobia, Roma, as Europe’s largest minority and its quintessential “other,” face the paradox that they are revered for their music and dance yet reviled as people. Balkan Romani music and dance are simultaneously professions, commodities, symbols of identity, and tools of multiculturalism in heritage discourse.  Focusing on communities, clubs, and festivals in Europe as well as the US, this illustrated ethnographic presentation investigates the ramifications of these phenomena for Romani performers and non-Romani musicians and dancers, producers, audiences and marketers.

Bio: Carol Silverman has been involved with Balkan and Romani music and culture for over forty years as a researcher, teacher, performer, and activist. An award-winning Professor Emerita of cultural anthropology and folklore at the University of Oregon, she teaches and writes about Balkan music, festivals, cultural policy, and human rights issues among Roma. Based on fieldwork in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, US, and Western Europe, her numerous articles analyze the relationship among music, politics, ritual and gender. She is curator of Balkan Music for the international digital RomArchive, see https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.romarchive.eu/en/music/balkan/__;!!KGKeukY!jyFDs3Cv9pUaj1qsgnCxEXcdVVsAspc12tDFXqJroXqKwfGxP7sbQTKOpiXdTbA$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.romarchive.eu/en/music/balkan/__;!!C5qS4YX3!XIlzv_caD6sSh3v78mZaJvW8J0Q8Om7II2x2xn6c2peLgYOvdLSlH58P5P6GO2eHcg$>, and board member of Voice of Roma, see voiceofroma.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://voiceofroma.com__;!!C5qS4YX3!XIlzv_caD6sSh3v78mZaJvW8J0Q8Om7II2x2xn6c2peLgYOvdLSlH58P5P4XqYguuA$>. Her book, Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Music/WorldMusicEthnomusicology/?view=usa&ci=9780195300949__;!!C5qS4YX3!XIlzv_caD6sSh3v78mZaJvW8J0Q8Om7II2x2xn6c2peLgYOvdLSlH58P5P7id48mkA$> (Oxford University Press, 2012), won the Book Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology. Her new book, Ivo Papasov’s Balkanology (Bloomsbury, 2021) traces Bulgarian Wedding Music from its creation in the 1970s to its emergence as a world music phenomenon in the 1990s to its reconfiguration in the present. Her most recent work analyzes the Romani music activism in context of the globalization of Balkan music, specifically its performance, consumption and production in relation to issues of representation and appropriation.  Carol performed with Zenska Pesna in NYC and Slavej on the west coast, and recorded and toured internationally for 20 years with the Yuri Yunakov Ensemble. She teaches Balkan singing internationally, and introduced Romani singing to East European Folklife Center workshops. She has given dozens of concerts, workshops, and lecture/demonstrations on Balkan folk music and its cultural context in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://eefc.org/teacher/carol-silverman/__;!!KGKeukY!jyFDs3Cv9pUaj1qsgnCxEXcdVVsAspc12tDFXqJroXqKwfGxP7sbQTKO52iN9Ck$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://eefc.org/teacher/carol-silverman/__;!!C5qS4YX3!XIlzv_caD6sSh3v78mZaJvW8J0Q8Om7II2x2xn6c2peLgYOvdLSlH58P5P6YYYwm7w$>    Academic website: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://anthropology.uoregon.edu/profile/csilverm/__;!!KGKeukY!jyFDs3Cv9pUaj1qsgnCxEXcdVVsAspc12tDFXqJroXqKwfGxP7sbQTKO8RgLYdk$





Carol Silverman
Professor Emerita
Department of Anthropology
and Folklore and Public Culture Program
University of  Oregon
Eugene OR 97403-1218

csilverm at uoregon.edu<mailto:csilverm at uoregon.edu>

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