About the Author

The authors have worked together on a variety of projects, including Polka Happiness (1992), co-authored by Dick Blau and the Keils. Dick Blau is Professor of Film at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. http: //www.dickblau.com/ Charles Keil is author of Urban Blues (1966) and Tiv Song (1979), and co-author (with Steven Feld) of Music Grooves (1994). Angeliki Vellou Keil is the compiler/editor of the Autobiography of Marcos Vamvakaris (1973). Steven Feld is Professor of Music and Anthropology at Columbia University. His sound recordings include Voices of the Rainforest (1991) and Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papua New Guinea (2001). Papua New Guinea (2001).] His newest recording, Bells & WinterFestivals of Greek Macedonia (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings), is a perfect accompaniment to Bright Balkan Morning, and is available at http: //www.folkways.si.edu/catalog/50401.htm. Ian Hancock is Professor of Linguistics, Asian Studies and English, and Director of the Romani Archives and Documentation Center, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also Romani representative member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Reviews

"Feld's sensitively recorded CD makes an already extraordinary book truly unique."----Dieter Christensen, Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University

""Feld's sensitively recorded CD makes an already extraordinary book truly unique.""----Dieter Christensen, Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University

""In rapport with the layered text by the Keils -- Dick Blau's amazing photographs give the book a sense of presence, the intimacy of people viewed up close and distant, always lovingly, with respect and with awe. There's an inviting pulse here, an energy and inwardness that take human shape; rapt bodies register and make palpable an unheard music. Blau's camera dances with its subjects and makes them real.""--Alan Trachtenberg, author of Reading American Photographs