February 2015 Blog Posts (4)

My Wanderings with Bart McDowell

When preparing to review my first book, I didn't really have any specific plans how I would do it. Though possessing only 215 pages more than half of which were photographs, the book presented a major challenge to me as a learner. In the end I decided to approach my review by structuring it around several questions that presented themselves as I was reading.

The first question was of course, why this book? I first chose Bart McDowell's "Gypsies. Wanderers of the…

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Added by Eugenia Shmulevich on February 23, 2015 at 2:15 — 1 Comment

Introduction of our new tab..." ROMANI REPORTS "....!

Under this tab, you will find interesting news on art, culture, history and media, gathered by: Wout J. van Vloten. Wout is also editor of the World Artists Initiative "Khetanes" page on Facebook. Articles published here can also be found on his Facebook page or on the Khetanes page on…

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Added by Stoimen on February 13, 2015 at 20:30 — 14 Comments

ROMA STEREOTYPE blog

Roma Stereotype blog

by Monica Bodirsky



Truth and Myth

 

Racial stereotypes are damaging because they are a distilled version of an entire culture or race. Stereotypes reduce a group or culture to a one-dimensional caricature by ignoring aspects of complexity and diversity. Sadly, despite the inaccuracies and often-ludicrous portrayals of Romani…

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Added by Stoimen on February 12, 2015 at 22:00 — 2 Comments

Khamoro Budapest Band

Khamoro Budapest Band is a folklore band which plays authentic contemporary gypsy music collected  from all over the country.Beside collections and covers they write, compose and publish their own  original songs.Their virtuosic songs are escorted with oral bass and colorful ornaments. The „listeners” (csacsi vorba) are deeply emotional.The lyrics are about family, love , happyness and sorrow of their actual statement ornamented with thirds.

The…

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Added by Zsolt Farkas on February 4, 2015 at 14:26 — No Comments

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