| Edition |
1st Vintage Departures ed |
| Descript |
viii, 242 sidor 22 cm |
| Note |
In 1998, Eberstadt and her family moved from New York to Perpignan, France, a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Always fascinated with Gypsy music, Eberstadt became obsessed with a local band called Tekameli, perhaps the greatest Gypsy band between Barcelona and Budapest. After eighteen futile months, she was at last invited into the home of Tekameli's lead singer, Moïse Espinas. Here she found a jealously guarded culture--a society made, in part, of lawlessness and defiance of non-Gypsy norms--that nonetheless made room for her, "a privileged American in a Mediterranean underworld." As her relationship with the Espinas family changed over the years from mutual bafflement to friendship, Eberstadt found herself a part of Gypsy life, moving about in a large group--at cockfights, in storefront churches, at malls, in homes, and at rehearsals, discovering lives lived "between biblical laws and strip-mall consumerism."--From publisher description |
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Romer
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Ekonomiska förhållanden
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Sociala förhållanden
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Romsk musik
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Romanies -- France -- Perpignan -- Social life and customs
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Romanies -- France -- Perpignan -- Music -- History and criticism
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Romanies -- France -- Perpignan -- Economic conditions
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Romer -- Frankrike -- Perpignan
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Romska biblioteket
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| Classmark |
305.891497
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Mat-j
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| ISBN/ISSN |
0307279421 pocket |
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9780307279422 pocket |
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