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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Radulescu, Speranta, editor.

editor.

Series:

Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manele--Romania--History and criticism.

Popular music--Social aspects.

Manele.

Popular music--Social aspects--Romania.

Romania.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file rdaft

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. 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.

Contents:

Chapter 1: "Music, Dance, Performance: A Descriptive Analysis of Manele" Speranta Radulescu and Anca Giurchescu Chapter 2: "A History of the Manea: The 19th to the Mid-20th Century" Costin Moisil Chapter 3: "Actors and Performance" Anca Giurchescu and Speranta Radulescu Chapter 4: "How the Music of Manele is Structured" Speranta Radulescu Chapter 5: "Village Manele:An Urban Genre in Rural Romania" Margaret Beissinger Chapter 6: "Manele and Regional Parallels: Ethnopop in the Balkans" Margaret Beissinger Chapter 7:"Manele and the Underworld" Adrian Schiop Chapter 8: "'Boyar in the Helicopter': Power, Parody, and Carnival in Manea Performances" Victor Stoichita Chapter 9: "Turbo-Authenticity: An Essay about 'Manelism'" Vintila Mihailescu Epilogue Speranta Radulescu

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798881815134

9781442267084

1442267089

OCLC:

950902131