Country of residence

United Kingdom

Brief introduction

Hourly paid lecturer, University of Salford

Education

PhD, Ethnomusicology, 1994, London University

Academic profile

In the last 28 years I have been devoting myself to Roma music research of Hungary, opening up also to both Hungarian musics in General and Roma music in wider, global, context.

Publications

• 1997 The Fair is ahead of me. Individual creativity and social contexts in the performances of a south-east Hungarian Vlach Gypsy slow song. Book commissioned by Institute of Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
• 2000a "Gypsy music". In Sadie, Stanley ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians London: Macmillan.
• 2002b"Between Life and Death: Mourning and Funerary Rites among the Hungarian Roma"; work contracted for Music, Sensation, and Sensuality, (collection of interdiciplinary essays) ed. Linda P. Austern. New York & London: Routledge, pp. 181-199.

Keywords

Roma Music, Hungarian Music the Nation

Contact

ikertesz@atlas.co.uk browse members list