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Music, Dance, and Behaviour in a New form of Expressive Culture: The Romanian Manea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Anca Giurchescu  and
Speranţa Rădulescu
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The popular music landscape of Romania today is dominated by the manea. It appeared in the late 1960s as a form of symbolic opposition by the Romani communities from the slums of the big cities on the Danube to their exclusion from Romanian society. In time manea became an expression of implicit protest by ordinary people from any ethnic background. In the 1970s and 1980s, it gradually penetrated into cities and villages. After 1990, the manea spread throughout the entire country and is now the favourite music of many teenagers, young people, and the nouveaux riches of the transition period, comprising together about one third of the population. The power of the manea arises from the dominant role it plays in public and private events, such as weddings, baptisms, funerals, anniversaries, and all kinds of parties organized in restaurants and clubs, as well as from the high visibility it receives on private TV channels, the Internet, commercial CDs and DVDs, concerts, and shows.

Abstract in romanian

Abstract in Romanian

Articolul supune investigaţiei un fenomen artistic aparent nou şi relativ complex, care stârneşte dezbateri aprinse în societatea româneasca: maneaua. Refacerea traseului său istoric (balcanic) este urmată de descrierea etnografică, de analiza componentelor (muzicală, coregrafică, poetică, comportamentală), de revelarea conexiunilor cu culturile Orientală, Occidentală şi autohtonă (rurală şi urbană) şi de tentativa de evidenţiere a semnificaţiilor sale sociale. Din această perspectivă, vrednică de atenţie este tendinţa, observabilă la nivelul producţiei manelelor, de reconstrucţie a identităţii naţionale în cheia lărgirii democraţiei şi a includerii în naţiunea română a grupurilor etnice minoritare, inclusiv cel al romilor.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 43 , 2011 , pp. 1 - 36
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Copyright © 2011 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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