Conway, David; (2023) Roma, Magyar, Jew: Complexities of Cultural Identity in the Spread of «Gypsy Music» in the Long Nineteenth Century. In: Cortizo, María Encina and Nommick, Ivan, (eds.) Between Centres and Peripheries: Music in Europe from the French Revolution to WWI. (pp. 229-243). Brepols: Turnhout, Belgium.

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In the eighteenth century, in the outlying fringes (both social and geographic) of Central and Eastern Europe, for perhaps four centuries, two tribes had lived simultaneously, scattered amongst their host communities. They shared a number of similarities in their own behaviour and in their relationships with their hosts. They each used their own languages amongst themselves; they identified and carried out their own social customs and taboos; they were endogamous, marrying only from their own tribes. They were discriminated against by the host communities, limited in their civic rights, to own property and to live in towns and cities, restricted to occupations which their hosts did not care to undertake. One tribe was castigated as immoral thieves; the other as murderers of the hosts’ deity.

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