Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church

by Barbara Rose Lange

Overview

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 performance styles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195137231
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/12/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.63(d)
Lexile:	1260L (what's this?)

About the Author

Barbara Rose Lange is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Moores School of Music, University of Houston

Editorial Reviews

"Lange masters her religious and musical topics with complete authority and a great deal of narrative skill."—Slavic Review

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