This fieldwork-based ethnochoreological study focuses on traditional dances of a Hungarian Romani/Gypsy (2) community at Transylvanian villages (Romania) practiced for Romanian electronic pop-folk music. Keywords: csingeralas, pop-folk, Romani/Gypsy, tradition, Transylvania
The continuity in dance idiom is maintained through changes in musical idiom-a remarkable phenomenon, worthy of further discussion from the point of view of the continuity of cultural tradition. Thus Romanian electronic pop-folk music including Romani/Gypsy elements provides the possibility for the survival of Transylvanian Hungarian Romani/Gypsy dance tradition both at community events and public discoes. This kind of musical accompaniment is applied not only to the fashionable Romanian manele, but also to their traditional dances (named csingeralas (1), ciganyos).
Abstract: This fieldwork-based ethnochoreological study focuses on traditional dances of Hungarian Romani/Gypsy communities in Transylvania (Romania) practiced to electronic pop-folk music.
