Full Description
In Roma Music and Emotion, author Filippo Bonini Baraldi forges a much-needed theory of music, emotion, and empathy from an anthropological perspective, addressing the failure of the prevailing psychological theories on music and emotion to account for non-western musical cultures.
Bonini Baraldi, having spent years among the Hungarian Roma of rural Transylvania, presents compelling ethnographic descriptions of their weddings, funerals, community celebrations, and intimate family gatherings. Based on extensive field research and informed by hypotheses drawn from the cognitive sciences, the anthropology of art, and aesthetics, Roma Music and Emotion analyzes why Roma musicians cry along with music and how they arouse specific feelings in their audiences.
Translated by Margaret Rigaud and written in clear prose, Roma Music and Emotion makes an important ethnomusicological contribution to theoretical discussions of the relationship between music and emotion.
Contents
Foreword, by Steven Feld
Acknowledgements
Notes to the English edition
Linguistic conventions
Introduction
Part 1: Musical emotions: When and why do they arise?
Section 1: Performing for Others, Performing for Oneself
Chapter 1: The professional ethics of the Roma musicians of Ceua,s
Chapter 2: Village Celebrations
Chapter 3: How to make music work, how to arouse emotions
Chapter 4: After the "service": time to party in tiganie
Chapter 5: Other occasions when musical emotions can arise in tiganie
Chapter 6: A musical experience of being inwardly torn apart
Section 2: Performing for the dead, arousing pity in the living
Chapter 7: Funerals and the politics of emotion
Chapter 8: The soundscape of a funeral wake
Part 2: Why do the Roma of Ceua,s cry with music?
Chapter 9: Musical emotions in the Roma community of Ceua,s: A concentric model
Chapter 10: Performing sorrow
Chapter 11: Personal tunes
Chapter 12: Being milos
Part 3: Music, Emotion, and Empathy
Chapter 13: What is musical empathy?
Chapter 14: Towards an anthropological approach to musical empathy
Conclusion
Epilogue
Glossary
Bibliography
Discography
Filmography
List of figures
Index of Audiovisual documents
Index
