Author : Timothy Lemke
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 2006-10-25
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1430302704
The New Gypsy Caravan book on how to build a travel trailer that is based on the design of a Gypsy Caravan. The book includes measured drawings, photographs and assembly instructions on how to build a caravan mountable to a conventional utility trailer and is capable of being towed by a small car. The background and history of the Gypsy caravan are also included.
Author : David Malvinni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2004-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 113587915X
A formidable challenge to the study of Roma (Gypsy) music is the muddle of fact and fiction in determining identity. This book investigates "Gypsy music" as a marked and marketable exotic substance, and as a site of active cultural negotiation and appropriation between the real Roma and the idealized Gypsies of the Western imagination. David Malvinni studies specific composers-including Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Janacek, and Bartók-whose work takes up contested and varied configurations of Gypsy music. The music of these composers is considered alongside contemporary debates over popular music and film, as Malvinni argues that Gypsiness remains impervious to empirical revelations about the "real" Roma.
Author : C. H. Ward-Jackson
Publisher : HP Trade
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Harold D. Carew
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 22,96 MB
Release : 1931
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Alan Acton
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780900458767
Romany culture is perhaps the most Indo-European of all. The ancestors of the Gypsies left India around 1000 years ago and mixed with every culture on the way to produce a variety of Romany dialects and well-known cultural achievements from Hungarian Gypsy music to the English Gypsy caravan. Such images somehow co-exist, however, with continuous persecution.
Author : Donald Kenrick
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0810864401
Originating in India, the Gypsies arrived in Europe around the 14th century, spreading not only across the entirety of the continent but also immigrating to the Americas. The first Gypsy migration included farmworkers, blacksmiths, and mercenary soldiers, as well as musicians, fortune-tellers, and entertainers. At first, they were generally welcome as an interesting diversion to the dull routine of that period. Soon, however, they attracted the antagonism of the governing powers, as they have continually done throughout the following centuries. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies) seeks to end such prejudice by clarifying the facts about this nomadic people. Through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics, the history of the Gypsies and their culture is told.
Author : Donald Kenrick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Romanies
ISBN : 0810875616
Originating in India, the Gypsies arrived in Europe around the 14th century, spreading not only across the entirety of the continent but also immigrating to the Americas. The first Gypsy migration included farmworkers, blacksmiths, and mercenary soldiers, as well as musicians, fortune-tellers, and entertainers. At first, they were generally welcome as an interesting diversion to the dull routine of that period. Soon, however, they attracted the antagonism of the governing powers, as they have continually done throughout the following centuries. The A to Z of the Gypsies (Romanies) seeks to end such prejudice by clarifying the facts about this nomadic people. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics, the history of the Gypsies and their culture is told.
Author : Brian A Belton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134274084
The book explores the notion of Gypsy and Traveller ethnicity and provides a critique of the conceptual basis of racial and ethnic categorisation. An analysis of the post-war housing situation is given in order to illustrate a connection between social and economic conditions, legislation affecting gypsies and travellers and the visibility and general consciousness of the gypsy and traveller population. The originality of the book lies in its argument that the position of gypsies and travellers largely arises out of social conditions and interaction rather than political, biological or ideological determinants. It puts forward the notion of an ethnic narrative of traveller identity and illustrates how variations of this have been defensively deployed by some travellers and elaborated on by theorists. Belton focuses on the social generation of travellers as a cultural, ethnic and racial categorization, offering a rational explanation of the development of an itinerant population that is less ambiguous and more informative in terms of the social nature of the gypsy and traveller position than interpretations based on 'blood', 'breed', 'stock', ethnicity or race that dominate the literature.
Author : Hege Høyer Leivestad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000182045
In Caravans, Hege Høyer Leivestad opens the caravan door to understand how daily life is organised among Britons and Swedes who have relocated, either seasonally or permanently, to mobile homes. Leivestad investigates how the caravan and campsite come to fit and challenge conventional domestic ideals, and how the static mobile caravan can nurture ideas of freedom even when it is standing still. With sensitivity and an awareness of the humour and pathos of the lives of her subjects, Leivestad closely examines the shaping of the European camping phenomenon and its day-to-day pleasures and pains, ranging from friendships ties to conflictive bingo nights, from nosy and noisy neighbours to fake fireplaces and rotten awning floors. As the first ethnographic study of caravan life in Europe, Caravans offers a refreshing take on contemporary mobility debates, showing how movement can best be understood by taking a detailed look at certain specific mundanities in material culture. This rich and topical ethnography is a must-read for students of anthropology, human geography and architecture, and for those with an interest in the possibilities and perils of a life on wheels.
Author : Anne Hamilton
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821748053
In her impressive debut novel, Hamilton tells the story of Lady Angelica Winsford, whose one night of passion with exotic gypsy Gitano binds her forever to him. Promised in marriage to a man she fears, Angelica yearns for Gitano, and when fate brings them together again at last, only she can decide is can abandon the world she knows for this mysterious man who has stolen her heart.
