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 bridge between the real Roma and the idealized Gypsies of the Western imagination. David Malvinni studies specific composers - including Liszt, Brahams, Rachmaninov, Janacek, and Bartok - whose work takes up contested and varied configurations of Gypsy music, and considers them alongside contemporary debates over popular music and film.

David Malvinni investigates 'gypsy music' as a bridge between the real Roma & the idealized Gypsies of the Western imagination. He considers the work of composers such as Liszt, Brahams & Bartok alongside contemporary debates over popular music & film.

More than fifty years after their founding, the Rolling Stones still tour and create new music as the world's quintessential rock band. David Malvinni's Experiencing the Rolling Stones: A Listener's Companion looks at the Stones' music from the inside out. Along the journey, Malvinni places individual songs and entire albums within the transformative era of the '60s, focusing on how the Rolling Stones integrated African American R&B, blues, and rock and roll into a uniquely British style. Vignettes describing what it was like to hear the Stones' music at the time of its release thread their...