Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church [Hardcover]

Barbara Rose Lange (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 12, 2002

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.

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

About the Author

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

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 019513723X
• ISBN-13: 978-0195137231
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,343,609 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ethnomusicology is an Art and not a Seance, July 15, 2003

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This review is from: Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church (Hardcover)

Combining in-depth musical analysis with personal experience and scholarly ethnography, Barbara Rose Lange's _Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church_ explores Romani or Gypsy music with an ear towards sprirtual meaning and music's profound social context in such a way that the general reader will be satisfied, and the specialist overjoyed. Forsaking jargon for direct reportage of interviews and musical experiences, Lange focuses on actual performance, providing precise translation of songs, practices, rituals--this is a book for the living. The result not only adds insight to outsider interpretations of Gypsy culture, but explicates music's relationship to religion, and Romani or Gypsy culture to the world at large. Delightful.