In Roma Music and Emotion, author Filippo Bonini Baraldi forges a much-needed theory of music, emotion, and empathy from an anthropological perspective, addressing the failure of the prevailing psychological theories on music and emotion to account for non-western musical cultures.
Bonini Baraldi, having spent years among the Hungarian Roma of rural Transylvania, presents compelling ethnographic descriptions of their weddings, funerals, community celebrations, and intimate family gatherings. Based on extensive field research and informed by hypotheses drawn from the cognitive sciences, the anthropology of art, and aesthetics, Roma Music and Emotion analyzes why Roma musicians cry along with music and how they arouse specific feelings in their audiences.
Translated by Margaret Rigaud, and with a Foreword by Steven Feld, Roma Music and Emotion makes an important ethnomusicological contribution to theoretical discussions of the relationship between music and emotion.
"Foreword, by Steven Feld Acknowledgements Notes to the English edition Linguistic conventions Introduction Part 1: Musical emotions: When and why do they arise? Section 1: Performing for Others, Performing for Oneself Chapter 1: The professional ethics of the Roma musicians of Ceua,s Chapter 2: Village Celebrations Chapter 3: How to make music work, how to arouse emotions Chapter 4: After the ""service"": time to party in tiganie Chapter 5: Other occasions when musical emotions can arise in tiganie Chapter 6: A musical experience of being inwardly torn apart Section 2: Performing for the dead, arousing pity in the living Chapter 7: Funerals and the politics of emotion Chapter 8: The soundscape of a funeral wake Part 2: Why do the Roma of Ceua,s cry with music? Chapter 9: Musical emotions in the Roma community of Ceua,s: A concentric model Chapter 10: Performing sorrow Chapter 11: Personal tunes Chapter 12: Being milos Part 3: Music, Emotion, and Empathy Chapter 13: What is musical empathy? Chapter 14: Towards an anthropological approach to musical empathy Conclusion Epilogue Glossary Bibliography Discography Filmography List of figures Index of Audiovisual documents Index"
Filippo Bonini Baraldi is a Researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology, NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal), and at the Centre for Research in Ethnomusicology, University of Paris Nanterre (France).
Reviews for Roma Music and Emotion
This book is simply a superb example of the best that the anthropology of music and sound has to offer. -- from the Foreword by Steven Feld, University of New Mexico Filippo Bonini Baraldi's Roma Music and Emotion is a landmark study: this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between music, emotion and human interactions. -- Martin Clayton, Durham University
- Winner of Winner, 2022 William A. Douglass Prize, Society for the Anthropology of Europe.
