The Gypsy Caravan : From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music [1 ed.] 9780203490068, 9780415969994

A formidable challenge to the study of Roma (Gypsy) music is the muddle of fact and fiction in determining identity. Thi

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The Gypsy Caravan : From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music [1 ed.]
9780203490068, 9780415969994

This book defines how mathematicians popularized imaginary numbers, which fixed all the math paradoxes and gave solution

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Translated from the Polish, Anna G. Piotrowska's Gypsy Music in European Culture details the profound impact that G

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Josef Korbel, whose career encompasses both scholarly and diplomatic roles, presents a crisp, up-to-date survey of postw

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RAW GYPSIES Nine true stories Limbos and another seven or eight Gypsies from Mocirla (“The Swamp”), on the outskirts of

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Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations, whilst remn

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An analysis of 166 documents---dating from the very first mention of a Gypsy in 1401 up to the year 1765-- illustrating

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For decades, scholars have been trying to answer the question: how was colonial Burma perceived in and by the Western wo

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Jekatyerina Dunajeva explores how two dominant stereotypes—“bad Gypsies” and “good Roma”—took hold in formal and informa

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This volume hopes to act as a catalyst for some new and exciting areas of enquiry in the more “liminal” interstices of I

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It has only been recognised tardily and with reluctance that during the Second World War hundreds of thousands of itiner

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