Format:
1 online resource
,
illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (colour).
ISBN:
9780197631805
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
In 'ReSounding Poverty', author Adriana N. Helbig refocuses studies of Roma communities and explores the failures of Western-funded economic aid programmes by studying musicians' representation of their operations.
Content:
"ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid engages with global scholarship on development, poverty, and applied research. It addresses the role of non-governmental organiza-tions (NGOs) within postsocialist neoliberal processes and analyzes the economic structures with-in which Romani musics circulate. Specifically, ReSounding Poverty offers a micro ethnography of economic networks that impact the daily lives of Romani musicians on the borders of the former Soviet Union and the European Union. It argues that the development aid allotted to provide economic assistance to Romani communities, when analyzed from the perspective of the performance arts, continues to marginalize the poorest among them. Through their structure and programming, NGOs choose which segments of the population are the most vulnerable and in the greatest need of assistance. Drawing on ethnographic research in development contexts, ReSounding Poverty asks who speaks for whom within the Romani rights movement today. Framing the critique of development aid in musical terms, it engages with Romani marginalization and economic deprivation through a closer listening to vocal inflections, physical vocalizations of health and disease, and emotional affect. ReSounding Poverty brings us into the back rooms of saman, mud and straw brick, houses not visited by media reporters and politicians, amplifying the cultural expressions of the Romani poor, silenced in the business of development"--
Note:
Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 26, 2023)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780197631768
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780197631768
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780197631768.001.0001
