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New Book by Zuzana Jurková Published

A new book "Romani Musicians in the 21st Century: Interviews with Olga Fečová, Josef Fečo, Pavel Dirda, and Jan Dužda" by Zuzana Jurková released.

Zuzana Jurková´s book Romani Musicians in the 21st Century: Interviews with Olga Fečová, Josef Fečo, Pavel Dirda, and Jan Dužda can be read on several levels… A first level is dominated by an ethnomusicological perspective focused on Romani music. The author deals with its nature, its sustainability, and its function in the construction of Romani identity… A second level, embedded in the perspective of oral history, acquaints the reader, through interviews, with representatives of three generations of Romani elites, with the social networks in which their musicianship matured, and with their roots… On a third level, the book can be understood as an example of the rules of qualitative methodology in ethnomusicology/anthropology… Another level can be just leafing through the book and looking at photographs by the author and from the musicians´ family archives.