No. 38 (2025): Music and Dance of Roma in the Balkans and It's Diaspora

In keeping with the editorial policy of continuously engaging with contemporary scholarly trends, the Main Theme section of this year’s first issue of Musicology is dedicated to Romani music and dance in the Balkan countries and their diasporas. Of the five contributions, the first two offer different approaches to the historical aspects and the systematization of Romani music studies conducted over an extended period in Bulgaria and Serbia, respectively. The representation of Romani identity in music has proven to be a particularly fruitful topic, as demonstrated by a study focusing on several Yugoslav Black Wave films and their subsequent discographic releases. The subsequent article provides extensive data on the self-organization of Romani musicians in Hungary during the Austro-Hungarian period and the Horthy era. The final contribution compares ethnographic examples from Romani community life in Transylvania with data from other parts of the world to conceptualize the living quality of music, personal melodies, sonic agency, and musical empathy. The Varia section also includes five contributions, encompassing thematically and methodologically diverse studies related to the musical cultures of Georgia, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslavia, and Lithuania.