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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...