Holy Brotherhood Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church

Name: Holy Brotherhood Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church
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ISBN: 9780195137231

ISBN-10: 019513723X

ISBN-13: 9780195137231

Edition: 2002

Authors: Barbara Rose Lange

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Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church is a musical ethnography of a religious community. After the end of socialism, different ethnic groups in Hungary harbored antagonism toward one another. In one Pentecostal church in Pecs, Hungary, however, both Hungarians and Roma (Gypsies) worshipped and made music together. Three musical repertoires coexisted, each with a separate historical background and complex social meanings: Romani religious song; nineteenth-century gospel hymns originally from the United States; and contemporary Christian pop from the United States. Church members accommodated cultural and musical differences by developing several distinct…

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List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/12/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 9.41" wide x 6.10" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Textual and Musical Transcriptions


Pronunciation Guide and Orthography for the Hungarian and Romani Languages


List of Abbreviations


Holy Brotherhood


Introduction



The Isten Gyï¿½lekezet in Hungarian Society



Instrumental Music, Charisma, and Church Leadership



Mediating Moralities: an Ethnographer's Interpretation



The Holy Spirit and Song Composition



Roma and the Hï¿½vï¿½ ï¿½nekek



The Politics of Nineteenth - Century Gospel Hymns



Stigma and Stereotype


Conclusion


Appendix: Recordings, Interviews, and Personal Communications


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index