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 with a Foreword by Steven Feld, Roma Music and Emotion makes an important ethnomusicological contribution to theoretical discussions of the relationship between music and emotion.
Table of Contents
Foreword, by Steven FeldAcknowledgementsNotes to the English editionLinguistic conventionsIntroductionPart 1: Musical emotions: When and why do they arise?Section 1: Performing for Others, Performing for OneselfChapter 1: The professional ethics of the Roma musicians of Ceua,sChapter 2: Village CelebrationsChapter 3: How to make music work, how to arouse emotionsChapter 4: After the "service": time to party in tiganieChapter 5: Other occasions when musical emotions can arise in tiganieChapter 6: A musical experience of being inwardly torn apartSection 2: Performing for the dead, arousing pity in the livingChapter 7: Funerals and the politics of emotionChapter 8: The soundscape of a funeral wakePart 2: Why do the Roma of Ceua,s cry with music?Chapter 9: Musical emotions in the Roma community of Ceua,s: A concentric modelChapter 10: Performing sorrowChapter 11: Personal tunesChapter 12: Being milosPart 3: Music, Emotion, and EmpathyChapter 13: What is musical empathy?Chapter 14: Towards an anthropological approach to musical empathyConclusionEpilogueGlossaryBibliographyDiscographyFilmographyList of figuresIndex of Audiovisual documentsIndex
