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Traditional Hungarian Romani/Gypsy dance and Romanian electronic pop-folk music in Transylvania

2015; Akadémiai Kiadó; Volume: 60; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1556/022.2015.60.1.5

1588-2586

Tamás Korzenszky,

Philippine History and Culture

This fieldwork-based ethnochoreological study focuses on traditional dances of Hungarian Romani/Gypsy communities in Transylvania (Romania) practiced to electronic pop-folk music. This kind of musical accompaniment is applied not only to the fashionable Romanian manele , but also to their traditional dances (named csingerálás 1 , cigányos.) Thus Romanian electronic pop-folk music including Romani/Gypsy elements provides the possibility for the survival of Transylvanian Hungarian Romani/Gypsy dance tradition both at community events and public discoes. The continuity in dance idiom is maintained through changes in musical idiom — a remarkable phenomenon, worthy of further discussion from the point of view of the continuity of cultural tradition.