Baraldi, Filippo Bonini - Roma Music and Emotion

Roma Music and Emotion is an important work of scholarship at the intersection of ethnomusicology and anthropology, combining long-term field research with hypotheses from the cognitive sciences to illustrate the musical world of the Roma of Transylvania and, in so doing, propose a groundbreaking anthropological theory on the emotional power of music

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CONTENTS

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 Ceuas
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 Ceuas cry with music?
Chapter 9: Musical emotions in the Roma community of Ceuas: A concentric model
Chapter 10: Performing sorrow
Chapter 11: Personal tunes
Chapter 12: Being milos
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