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Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church
Author(s): Barbara Rose Lange (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: December 12, 2002
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 019513723X
- ISBN-13: 9780195137231
Book Description
Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church is a musical ethnography of a religious community. After the end of socialism, different ethnic groups in Hungary harbored antagonism toward one another. In one Pentecostal church in Pecs, Hungary, however, both Hungarians and Roma (Gypsies) worshipped and made music together. Three musical repertoires coexisted, each with a separate historical background and complex social meanings: Romani religious song; nineteenth-century gospel hymns originally from the United States; and contemporary Christian pop from the United States. Church members accommodated cultural and musical differences by developing several distinct performance styles.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Lange masters her religious and musical topics with complete authority and a great deal of narrative skill.”–Slavic Review
About the Author
Barbara Rose Lange is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Moores School of Music, University of Houston
