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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Introduction

Margaret Beissinger

The Introduction sets forth the reasons that the editors originally embarked on the current book project on manele (sg. manea). These include the significant role that manele have occupied in contemporary Romania—first as an underground genre and after 1989 as a popular form that expressed dissent in response to the officially-controlled Romanian “national” music-making that had dominated the communist period. Central to this discussion are the impassioned reactions, both pro and con, that manele have generated and why they have been voiced so loudly. The Introduction concludes with a brief section that presents the authors and types of research and fieldwork that they have employed, along with a resumé of the chapters of the volume.

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