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Bright Balkan Morning

Romani Lives and the Power of Music in Greek Macedonia

In an accompanying CD, MacArthur Fellow Steven Feld takes the listener through a bustling Greek open-air market, inside a Greek coffee house full of board games and mixed media, outside a Greek Orthodox morning church service, next to a woman singing at home, into the middle of dancing parties so that zurna and dauli playing and people singing are always in a context, framed acoustically by place and social action through time.
  
Ian Hancock, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas/Austin, and Romani  Representative to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, has written the foreword which provides the broadest and deepest context of all: the migration story out of India.

 

Photographs by
Dick Blau

Text by
Angeliki Vellou Keil
and
Charles Keil

Soundscape by
Steven Feld