Hungarian Folk Songs and Csàrdàses
Title
Hungarian Folk Songs and Csàrdàses
Subject
Folk songs, Hungarian
Czardas
Folk dance music Hungary
Description
This LP was published by the American record label Fiesta Record Company, located in New York City, and the music itself was recorded in Europe. Fiesta was started in 1952 by José Morand, a Latin American band leader. While Fiesta started by only publishing Latin music, it eventually branched out into a wide variety of "ethnic" music. The artists Fiesta presented were usually unknown in America, but would sometimes be famous in their home countries (Schreiber 76).
"Hungarian Folk songs and Csàrdàses" is a part of the William G. Lockwood Romani Music Collection at the Michigan State University Library. The collection contains a wide variety of music, ranging from albums by Romani artists to song titles that contain the word “gypsy”. Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Russian, and (as with this LP) Hungarian Romani artists are all represented as well as artists from other countries (MSULibraries). The collection is a good example of the cross-national groupings that happen within the Roma community. “The importance of music as a measure and medium of displacement…increasingly occupies a place in musicological and ethnomusicological approaches to migration in postcolonial Europe. Displacement allows individuals and communities to express their connection to a particular place even when they are not residents of the places from which they draw their identity” (Bohlman 159). The Lockwood Collection brings together disparate musical artists who may see no connection to each other otherwise. Some Romani artists may even be offended to be included in a collection with “gypsy” music. But there is still power in the representation of this kind of music, no matter how loosely it is grouped together.
Bibliography:
Bohlman, Philip Vilas. The Music of European Nationalism: Cultural Identity and Modern History. ABC- CLIO, 2004.
Schreiber, Norman. The Ultimate Guide to Independent Record Labels and Artists: an A-to-Z Source of Great Music. Pharos Books, 1992.
MSU Libraries: William G. Lockwood Romani Music Collection. Discogs.com, MSULibraries, 2016 p. 1, www.discogs.com/lists/MSU-Libraries-William-G-Lockwood-Romani-Music Collection/281361?page=1, Accessed 4 Oct 2017.
"Hungarian Folk songs and Csàrdàses" is a part of the William G. Lockwood Romani Music Collection at the Michigan State University Library. The collection contains a wide variety of music, ranging from albums by Romani artists to song titles that contain the word “gypsy”. Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Russian, and (as with this LP) Hungarian Romani artists are all represented as well as artists from other countries (MSULibraries). The collection is a good example of the cross-national groupings that happen within the Roma community. “The importance of music as a measure and medium of displacement…increasingly occupies a place in musicological and ethnomusicological approaches to migration in postcolonial Europe. Displacement allows individuals and communities to express their connection to a particular place even when they are not residents of the places from which they draw their identity” (Bohlman 159). The Lockwood Collection brings together disparate musical artists who may see no connection to each other otherwise. Some Romani artists may even be offended to be included in a collection with “gypsy” music. But there is still power in the representation of this kind of music, no matter how loosely it is grouped together.
Bibliography:
Bohlman, Philip Vilas. The Music of European Nationalism: Cultural Identity and Modern History. ABC- CLIO, 2004.
Schreiber, Norman. The Ultimate Guide to Independent Record Labels and Artists: an A-to-Z Source of Great Music. Pharos Books, 1992.
MSU Libraries: William G. Lockwood Romani Music Collection. Discogs.com, MSULibraries, 2016 p. 1, www.discogs.com/lists/MSU-Libraries-William-G-Lockwood-Romani-Music Collection/281361?page=1, Accessed 4 Oct 2017.
Creator
István Balogh és Cigányzenekara (Gypsy Orchestra)
Publisher
Fiesta Record Company, Inc.
Date
198_?
Contributor
Emily Peterson
Format
Physical record (12" vinyl disc)
Language
English
Hungarian
Type
LP
Identifier
CSC_GBA_16
FLPS1397
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Citation
István Balogh és Cigányzenekara (Gypsy Orchestra), “Hungarian Folk Songs and Csàrdàses,” A Storied People, accessed April 26, 2024, https://astoriedpeople.oberlincollegelibrary.org/items/show/53.