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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Public Sector Folklore List <PUBLORE@LIST.UNM.EDU> on behalf of Carol Silverman <csilverm@UOREGON.EDU><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 15, 2022 4:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> PUBLORE@LIST.UNM.EDU <PUBLORE@LIST.UNM.EDU><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [PUBLORE] Balkan Romani Music and Dance: Heritage, Profession, Commodity-- illustrated Zoom lecture Feb 24, 4 PM PST</font>
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Balkan Romani Music and Dance: Heritage, Profession, Commodity<br>
Illustrated lecture, Thursday Feb 24, 4 PM PST by Carol Silverman<br>
Donations to the sponsor, Folk Arts Center of New England, are welcome<br>
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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.<br>
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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
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(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.
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Carol Silverman<br>
Professor Emerita<br>
Department of Anthropology<br>
and Folklore and Public Culture Program<br>
University of Oregon<br>
Eugene OR 97403-1218<br>
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csilverm@uoregon.edu<mailto:csilverm@uoregon.edu><br>
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