Filippo Bonini Baraldi
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- July 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190096786
- eISBN:
- 9780190096823
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190096786.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter introduces the ethnographic context of this research: a small Hungarian and Roma village of central Transylvania (Romania) called Ceuaş or Csávás [h]. It describes the daily life of the ...
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This chapter introduces the ethnographic context of this research: a small Hungarian and Roma village of central Transylvania (Romania) called Ceuaş or Csávás [h]. It describes the daily life of the Roma and their relationships with the Hungarian peasants living in the same village. The second part of the chapter discusses how the topic of musical emotions can be approached from an anthropological and ethnomusicological perspective, and what concerns it raises. The final part presents the methodological choices the author made in order to understand why the Transylvanian Roma cry with music.Less
This chapter introduces the ethnographic context of this research: a small Hungarian and Roma village of central Transylvania (Romania) called Ceuaş or Csávás [h]. It describes the daily life of the Roma and their relationships with the Hungarian peasants living in the same village. The second part of the chapter discusses how the topic of musical emotions can be approached from an anthropological and ethnomusicological perspective, and what concerns it raises. The final part presents the methodological choices the author made in order to understand why the Transylvanian Roma cry with music.
Filippo Bonini Baraldi
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- July 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190096786
- eISBN:
- 9780190096823
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190096786.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
By combining long-term field research with hypotheses from the cognitive sciences, this book proposes a groundbreaking anthropological theory on the emotional power of music. It hig hlights a human ...
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By combining long-term field research with hypotheses from the cognitive sciences, this book proposes a groundbreaking anthropological theory on the emotional power of music. It hig hlights a human tendency to engage in empathic relations through and with the musical artifacts, veritable “sonic agents” for which we can feel pity, compassion, or sympathy. The theory originates from a detailed ethnography of the musical life of a small Roma community of Transylvania (Romania), where Filippo Bonini Baraldi lived several years, seeking an answer to intriguing questions such as: Why do the Roma cry while playing music? What lies behind their ability to move their customers? What happens when instrumental music and wailing voices come together at funerals? Through the analysis of numerous weddings, funeral wakes, community celebrations, and intimate family gatherings, the author shows that music and weeping go hand in hand, revealing fundamental tensions between unity and division, life and death, the self and others—tensions that the Roma enhance, overemphasize, and perceive as central to their identity. In addition to improving our understanding of a community still shrouded in stereotypes, this book is an important contribution for research on musical emotion, which thus far has focused almost exclusively on western classical music.Less
By combining long-term field research with hypotheses from the cognitive sciences, this book proposes a groundbreaking anthropological theory on the emotional power of music. It hig hlights a human tendency to engage in empathic relations through and with the musical artifacts, veritable “sonic agents” for which we can feel pity, compassion, or sympathy. The theory originates from a detailed ethnography of the musical life of a small Roma community of Transylvania (Romania), where Filippo Bonini Baraldi lived several years, seeking an answer to intriguing questions such as: Why do the Roma cry while playing music? What lies behind their ability to move their customers? What happens when instrumental music and wailing voices come together at funerals? Through the analysis of numerous weddings, funeral wakes, community celebrations, and intimate family gatherings, the author shows that music and weeping go hand in hand, revealing fundamental tensions between unity and division, life and death, the self and others—tensions that the Roma enhance, overemphasize, and perceive as central to their identity. In addition to improving our understanding of a community still shrouded in stereotypes, this book is an important contribution for research on musical emotion, which thus far has focused almost exclusively on western classical music.
Filippo Bonini Baraldi
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- July 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190096786
- eISBN:
- 9780190096823
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190096786.003.0016
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This final chapter summarizes the main achievement of this research on the “musical tears” of the Roma of Ceuaş. It shows what light it sheds, more generally, on European Roma communities and on the ...
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This final chapter summarizes the main achievement of this research on the “musical tears” of the Roma of Ceuaş. It shows what light it sheds, more generally, on European Roma communities and on the question of musical emotions. The chapter raises the question of how the gap between laboratory research and fieldwork can be reduced, and poses the foundations of an interdisciplinary approach to musical emotions.Less
This final chapter summarizes the main achievement of this research on the “musical tears” of the Roma of Ceuaş. It shows what light it sheds, more generally, on European Roma communities and on the question of musical emotions. The chapter raises the question of how the gap between laboratory research and fieldwork can be reduced, and poses the foundations of an interdisciplinary approach to musical emotions.
