Little money street : in search of gypsies and their music in the south of France / Fernanda Eberstadt.
2006
DX227 .E34 2006 (Mapit)
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Little money street : in search of gypsies and their music in the south of France / Fernanda Eberstadt.
Author
Eberstadt, Fernanda, 1960-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
037541116X
9780375411168
9780375411168
Publication Details
New York : Knopf, 2006.
Language
English
Description
viii, 242 p. ; 22 cm.
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DX227 .E34 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.891/497044
Summary
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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