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A disenfranchised minority fights poverty and discrimination to go to collegeWhen Katalin Forray arrived at the University of Pécs to set up Hungary’s first Gypsy-studies department, she ...
Listen to the CD Cs rd s Hungarian Gypsy Music, perf. Ferenc Santa and His Gypsy Band, Naxos B000001413 (1995; available on Amazon.com). About the lives of Gypsy musicians today.
Cornell University rural sociologists, studying the impact of Hungary's Act 77, found that many Gypsy minority self- governments are the driving forces of local development and that local, social ...
Gypsies from across Europe gathered Monday at Auschwitz, Poland, to remember hundreds of thousands of their murdered ancestors and to call for wider recognition of their suffering in the Holocaust.
Monika Lakatos, a celebrated singer of "Olah Gypsy" music from Hungary, has become the first Romani artist to receive the prestigious World Music Expo (WOMEX) lifetime achievement award.
A concert will juxtapose the musical traditions of Hungarian Gypsies and black Americans. Among the quirkier events will be a two-month-long mustache-growing contest, the winner of which will get a ...
Debbie shared that she comes from a line of Hungarian Gypsies and that she and Faith traveled a lot for work. Because of this, her mother suggested using “Gypsy” as part of their name.
Johannes Brahms' most lucrative compositions were appropriated from Hungarian Gypsy bands. In his Hungarian Dances, he adds romantic elements to popular Gypsy tunes. The Budapest Festival ...
If you sat down in a Budapest restaurant, until not long ago Gypsy musicians would come to your table and play your favorite tune on a violin for a tip -- sometimes even if you really wished to ...
ALFRED BENDINER is of Hungarian descent, a resident of Philadelphia, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
In 2004, Canadian immigration authorities decided he faced “more than a mere possibility of persecution” in Hungary, where abuse of Roma – sometimes referred to as Gypsies – has been ...
Today some Hungarian gypsies actually have TV sets—though they often go around barefoot. Hungary, of course, is still a totalitarian state. Watchtowers, minefields and barbed-wire fences seal ...