Ági Szalóki and Multiethnic Femininity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Rose Lange
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Children's Music ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Best Response ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
Mixed Ethnicity

Chapter 2 details how female performers with Romani (Gypsy) and Magyar ancestry face constraints of mixed ethnicity and gender, discussing the career of singer Ági Szalóki. The chapter outlines how Magyar female performers singing music of all regional ethnicities contributed to the folk revival in Hungary from the 1970s to the present; the international star Márta Sebestyén gave inspiration to young minority performers such as Szalóki, who then oriented their solo careers toward the liberalized society and the middle class. The chapter details how Szalóki left a Balkan Romani-style band to pursue solo projects that blended folk song and jazz, resisting expectations that Romani and other folk music should sound rustic. The chapter argues that Szalóki’s projects got the best response in feminine spheres such as children’s music, even as her solo work challenged ideas around male leadership. It describes ways in which Szalóki spoke out against far-right nationalism.

Controlling the Liminal Power of Performance: Hungarian Scholars and Romani Musicians in the Hungarian Folk Revival

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
LYNN HOOKER
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Liminal Spaces ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Fixed Boundaries ◽  
Hungarian Folk Music

AbstractIn the Hungarian folk revival, Hungarian Roma (Gypsies) serve as both privileged informants and exotic Others. The musicians of the revival known as the táncház (dance-house) movement rely heavily on rural Rom musicians, especially those from Transylvania, as authentic sources of traditional Hungarian repertoire and style. Táncház rhetoric centres on the trope of localized authenticity; but the authority wielded by rural Rom musicians, who carry music both between villages and around the world, complicates the fixed boundaries that various powerful stakeholders would place on the tradition. Drawing on media sources and on fieldwork in Hungary and Romania, I examine how authenticity and ‘Gypsiness’ are presented and controlled by the scholars, musicians, and administrators who lead the táncház movement, in particular in the context of camps and workshops dedicated to Hungarian folk music and dance. Organizers often erect clear boundaries of status, genre, and gender roles through such events, which, among other things, address the anxiety raised by Rom musicians’ power in liminal spaces. In addition, I look at how Rom musicians both negotiate with the táncház’s aesthetic of authenticity and challenge it musically. Finally, I discuss how musicians and the crowds that gather to hear and dance to their music together create a carnival atmosphere, breaking down some of the boundaries that organizers work so hard to create. Throughout, I demonstrate that liminality is an extraordinarily pertinent lens through which to view Roma participation in the Hungarian folk music scene.

Talking Union

Red Strains ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernie Lieberman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
World War ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Protest Songs ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Progressive Party ◽  
American Left

Ernie Lieberman grew up in the midst of the folk revival that took place during the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. This chapter describes how folk music came to be important to the American left, the issues on which they focused (union organizing, racial and gender equality, peace), and Lieberman's own participation in the movement. As a child in the 1930s, he admired Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, and sang folk and protest songs at summer camp, Progressive party conventions, and on tours for the Civil Rights Congress. In the 1950s, he performed and recorded albums with the first interracial folk group, and later, as political folk music began to reach a wider audience, became a songwriter.

Playing the Identity Card: Of Grieg, Indians, and Women

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-227
Author(s):  
Susan McClary
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
German School ◽  
Identity Card ◽  
Music And Identity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender

Abstract This piece was written as a keynote to a conference, Music and Identity, held in Bergen, Norway, in September 2007 to commemorate the centennial of Edvard Grieg's death. Its author, Susan McClary, both reflects on issues of identity politics then and now——including the ways in which ethnicity and gender have operated in her own career——and explores how Grieg himself theorized his fusions between the German school of composition and Norwegian folk music. It concludes with an analysis of Grieg's ““Røøtnams-Knut,”” from his late collection Slååtter.

Further Developments, 1957–1958

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Greenwich Village ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
The Village

This chapter describes the folk music scene from 1957 to 1958. It discusses the emergence of the Kingston Trio that energized the folk revival; folk festivals and recordings; the continued popularity of skiffle in Great Britain; magazines the covered the folk music scene, including Sing Out! and Caravan; and Alan Lomax's return to the United States after seven years of folk-song collecting across Europe. According to Greenwich Village musician Dave Van Ronk, “the last years of the 1950s were a great time to be in the Village.” “It was not too crazy yet, but there was an exhilarating sense of something big right around the corner. As for the folk scene, it was beginning to look as if it might have a future, and me with it.” What was happening in Greenwich Village was rapidly spreading around the country. Folk music, broadly defined, appeared to have a bright future, while spanning the Atlantic Ocean.

scholarly journals Attitudes to School Teacher and Peers – Mixed Ethnicity Groups Compared to Majority and Minority Student Networks

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Mary-Anne Holfve-Sabel
Keyword(s):  
School Teacher ◽  
Minority Student ◽  
Male Students ◽  
School Factors ◽  
Relational Factors ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Mixed Networks ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
Mixed Ethnicity

Aims: The general aim of this study was to investigate students’ attitudes to school, teacher and peers in voluntarily-chosen networks with respect to ethnicity and gender. Study Design: Self-reports on attitudes were collected from 12-year old students in 77 grade 6 classes in the city of Göteborg, Sweden. Social networks were made up of students who voluntarily and reciprocally chose each other to be with during breaks. Place and Duration of Study: Sampling of all data autumn 2003. Work up of sociometric data 2016. Methodology: Based on a previous two-level confirmatory factor analysis, three school factors and four relational factors were identified. Social network analysis of the choices was carried out using a Matlab program identifying reciprocal (bilateral) choices. Three categories of network were identified using the names of their members. Mixed ethnicity networks were compared to majority (Scandinavian), and minority networks (Non-Scandinavian). Members outside networks were labelled “Outsiders”. Results: One out of five students was classified non-Scandinavian. Non-Scandinavian networks had high scoring for the categories “Interest in School” and “Working Atmosphere”. In Scandinavian networks, girls were more anxious at school and scored relationships to their classmates and the view of their peers significantly lower than the male students. Girls in this category also felt that disruption in the classroom was more common while the boys were, apparently, more tolerant of it. Within Mixed networks, gender differences were exclusively dependent on Non-Scandinavian students’ attitudes. Non-Scandinavian girls in the Mixed networks were surprisingly similar to their female Scandinavian peers. Individuals outside networks were overrepresented among Non-Scandinavians. They showed weaker relationships with classmates, had more problems with peers and were more anxious at school. Furthermore, they considered disruption during lessons to be common. Conclusion: Promotion of a mixture of ethnicities appeared best for improving attitudes to school. Immigrant children were overrepresented in the Outsider group, and at risk of rejection.

Depictions of Ethnicity and Gender in Elementary School Science Materials

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Winterrowd ◽  
Silvia Canetto ◽  
April Biasiolli ◽  
Nazanin Mohajeri-Nelson ◽  
Aki Hosoi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
School Science ◽  
Elementary School Science ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender

Neural and sociocultural mediators of ethnic differences in pain

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
EAR Losin ◽  
CW Woo ◽  
NA Medina ◽  
JR Andrews-Hanna ◽  
Hedwig Eisenbarth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Ethnic Differences ◽  
Nociceptive Pain ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Pain Mechanisms ◽  
Thermal Pain ◽  
Heat Effects ◽  
Pain Report ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender

© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Understanding ethnic differences in pain is important for addressing disparities in pain care. A common belief is that African Americans are hyposensitive to pain compared to Whites, but African Americans show increased pain sensitivity in clinical and laboratory settings. The neurobiological mechanisms underlying these differences are unknown. We studied an ethnicity- and gender-balanced sample of African Americans, Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites using functional magnetic resonance imaging during thermal pain. Higher pain report in African Americans was mediated by discrimination and increased frontostriatal circuit activations associated with pain rating, discrimination, experimenter trust and extranociceptive aspects of pain elsewhere. In contrast, the neurologic pain signature, a neuromarker sensitive and specific to nociceptive pain, mediated painful heat effects on pain report largely similarly in African American and other groups. Findings identify a brain basis for higher pain in African Americans related to interpersonal context and extranociceptive central pain mechanisms and suggest that nociceptive pain processing may be similar across ethnicities.

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