Roma Music and Emotion

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.

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).

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?

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? cry with music?

Chapter 9: Musical emotions in the Roma community of Ceua?: 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