Re: Hungarian/Romanian

[Paul M. Gifford <PGIFFORD...>]

Ari Davidow <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com> said:

> >"B.J. Adrezin" <BJ99 (at) concentric(dot)net> said:
> >
> >> Could anybody describe the essential differences between hungarian
> >> and romanian music?
> >
> >    I guess I'll swallow the bait.  But first let's define "Hungarian"
> >as Hungarian Gypsy music....
> 
> Hmmm. I'm not entirely convinced that the average Hungarian
> would go along with that, but lovely explanation of what followed ;-).
> 
I know that there has been, since the '70s, a reaction to Hungarian 
Gypsy Music as "not folk music," etc., and it is not popular with
younger people, but this is a unique variety of national music, which
has been dominant for many years, and, as I said, klezmorim played a
role in its development.  Further, although Transylvanian village 
music is the hot thing now, there are obvious similarities between it
and urban Gypsy music.  Romanian music has even more varieties, but
using the Bucharest style as the benchmark seems to make the most 
sense, since it is the type featured on most records available 
outside the country.

Paul Gifford