Summary


Introduction
Margaret Beissinger


Ch. 1:
Music, Dance, Performance: A Descriptive Analysis of Manele
Anca Giurchescu & Speranța Rădulescu


Ch. 2:
A History of the Manea: The 19th to the Mid-20th Century
Costin Moisil


Ch. 3:
How the Music of Manele is Structured
Speranța Rădulescu


Ch. 4:
Romanian Manele and Regional Parallels: "Oriental" Ethnopop in the Balkans
Margaret Beissinger


Ch. 5:
Actors and Performance
Speranța Rădulescu


Ch. 6:
The "Boyar in the Helicopter": Power, Parody, and Carnival in Manea Performances
Victor Alexandre Stoichita


Ch. 7:
Manele and the Underworld
Adrian Schiop


Ch. 8:
Village Manele: An Urban Genre in Rural Romania
Margaret Beissinger


Ch. 9:
Turbo-Authenticity: An Essay about "Manelism"
Vintilă Mihăilescu


Epilogue
Speranța Rădulescu

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Chapter 7:

Manele and the Underworld

Adrian Schiop

This chapter, written by a freelance journalist and recent Ph.D. in Anthropology (National School of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest) who is a passionate devotee of manele, treats the dynamism as well as brutal and expressive authenticity of the genre. The analysis benefits from the author’s infiltration of the normally impenetrable universe of those who produce and diffuse manele thus permitting him to decipher the veiled relationships between manelişti and those who exploit the economic situation of present-day Romania--the underworld and nouveau-riches. The chapter combines anthropological research and theory with interpretive methods of journalism.

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