The influence of the Roma in the Balkans

The existence of the Roma is the busiest in the world, having traveled thousands of miles in a trip that lasted several centuries and has given the colors of all the places you've installed along the route. Discriminated against, rejected, often foreign, exterminated in concentration camps by the Nazis during World War II and given the derogatory term "gypsy" for his arrival Egypt, the Roma have always been travelers. During their long journey that began in the regions of Punjab and Rajasthan in India in the 11th century and continued in Egypt, Turkey, Armenia and Europe, many of them settled in the Balkans, bringing along their traditions.

While the Balkan countries have different languages, cultures and traditions, which share many similarities, because its common rule by the Ottoman Empire for nearly 500 years. Moreover, the Balkan Peninsula is an intersection Similarities between Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia, and therefore mindsets, food and music to be found. However, the music plays the biggest role in the lives of the Balkans and is widely associated with tradition.

The most important influence of Roma in the Balkans has undoubtedly been his music. Roma musicians have influenced and were influenced the new territories, are installed. Especially in the Balkans, its impact is still evident when Rome orchestras make their living playing in the wedding celebrations of festivals preserving indigenous customs. Absorb local musical traditions and adding their own twists, turns, turns and trills, musicians Roma are familiar with the sounds of different parts of the Balkans and to mix their philosophy and aesthetics to produce innovative sounds.

Musicians Gypsies playing traditional instruments and folk that also include the accordion, saxophone, clarinet and trumpet, then added keyboards and sometimes sets. Brass magnificent scandalous that began in the era of the Ottoman Empire may be a more well-known legacy of Rome in the Balkan music. Originally introduced in Europe by Romanians Fanfare Ciocarlia, use brass bands and wind rushing through the air at a ridiculous pace and make wild improvisations. Over time, gangs have become in a huge phenomenon in the Balkan region. Each year in Guca Festival in Serbia, more than 200 groups participate regularly in an area that has the Boban Markovic Serbia and Macedonia Kocani Orkestar at the festival louder and more fantastic the world of popular music.

Moreover, the Roma musicians are also particularly prone to the influence of the music world, and the mixture of the merger of the Balkans into the world of local pop music is the new pop-folk Balkan Turbo is known as the name of the countries of former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Romania Changa at Manele. The pop-folk music is a dance of the Balkans has a constant 4 / 4 or 2 / 4, but can also play 5 / 8 9 / 8, 7 / 16 and 11/16 and is beautifully decorated with improvised instrumental solo saxophone, clarinet or trumpet.

All these alternatives sound emerged in the Balkans, as a result of interaction with local musicians in Rome. And the interaction became more active after the political and economic reforms that have taken place in the Balkan peninsula, mostly with the collapse of the former Yugoslavia in 1992. With the open border in the world, many countries in the Balkans against the influence in the world of folk music and the unique sound created in order to save his identity. This talented Roma musicians led him to explore his roots and to promote more professional in the 1990s. Examples include ex-combatants great Bulgarian Ivo Papasov (clarinet, received in 2006 the BBC) and Yuri Yunakov (saxophonist, known as the master of the marriage "). The young generation Roma musicians in Bulgaria is represented by Theodosii Spasov (kaval player and composer) and the wild horses of his group, which play a novel blend of Balkan folk and jazz. However, heritage of the Roma in the Balkan music has found its best defender in the face of the veteran Serbian composer and founder of the Yugoslav rock scene, Goran Bregovic. Since 1998, Bregovic is playing with her wedding and funeral orchestra performs southern Slavs and sung by traditional singers Roma in Bulgaria and Roma. By Moreover, his collaboration with filmmaker Emir Kusturica in "Time of the Gypsies" (1988), have encouraged and Roma language music (since it is filmed in Romania) and its influence in the Balkans.

There is no doubt that despite the Roma have suffered, and in many Balkan countries that have experienced the stereotypes racial discrimination, extreme political, economic and social, his music is popular in the Balkan Peninsula. It is very difficult to explain with only a couple of words. Perhaps the intensity of energetic music that resonates well with the temperament and mentality of the Balkans. This could be the desire of the peoples of Balkans to preserve its authenticity and Rome the only ethnic group that still keeps the tradition intact and unaffected by globalization and urbanization. It can only be that, despite discrimination, Roma are the threshold impulsive last opposition to the new order of things convincing. And this uniqueness is that the influence the music scene in the Balkans first.

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