Manele in Romania : cultural expression and social meaning in Balkan popular music / edited by Margaret Beissinger, Speranța Rădulescu, Anca Giurchescu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beissinger, Margaret H., 1954- editor.

Rădulescu, Speranța, editor.

Giurchescu, Anca, editor.

Series:

Europea ; no. 21.

Europea : ethnomusicologies and modernities ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manele--Romania--History and criticism.

Manele.

Popular music--Social aspects--Romania.

Popular music.

Popular music--Social aspects.

Romania.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 311 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

Summary:

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. Manele have, however, 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Music, dance, performance : a descriptive analysis of Manele / Anca Giurchescu and Speranța Rădulescu

A history of Manea : the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century / Costin Moisil

How the music of Manele is structured / Speranța Rădulescu

Romanian Manele and regional parallels : "oriental" ethnopop in the Balkans / Margaret Beissinger

Actors and performance / Speranța Rădulescu

The "Boyar in the helicopter" : power, parody and carnival in Manea performances / Victor Alexandre Stoichiță

Manele and the underworld / Adrian Schiop

Village Manele : an urban genre in rural Romania / Margaret Beissinger

Turbo-authenticity : an essay on Manelism / Vintilă Mihăilescu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Manele in Romania

ISBN:

9781442267077

1442267070

OCLC:

945357065