Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsContributorsGeneral Introduction by Eve Rosenhaft and María Sierra
Section One: PoliticsIntroduction: The Spaces of Politics: Roma Experiences of Citizenship by María SierraChapter 1 Helios Gómez: To be Roma in the Revolution by Juan ProChapter 2 The Long Road in Search of a Tzigane Language: Sandra Jayat by Begoña BarreraChapter 3 Ronald Lee: Discovering Romanestan between Canada and Europe by Carolina García Sanz
Section Two: Economic lifeIntroduction: Travelling and Trading – Romani Horse Dealers in the Making of Europe’s Economic Multiculture by Eve Rosenhaft and Tamara WestChapter 4 Intersecting Lives: The Brough Hill Fair as Biography-in-Pieces by Tamara WestChapter 5 “Invaders” – Mobility and Economy in the Lives of the Laubinger Family by Eve Rosenhaft and Tamara WestChapter 6 The Florians, the Habedanks and the Horse Fair at Wehlau by Eve Rosenhaft            Section Three: MusicIntroduction: The Space for/of Romani Music by Anna G. PiotrowskaChapter 7 Romani Virtuosi – A Multifaceted Portrait by Anna G. Piotrowska Chapter 8 From the History of the Lăutari in Romania by Anna G. Piotrowska Chapter 9 The Story of Corroro, a Musical Genius from Kraków by Anna G. Piotrowska in collaboration with Paweł Lechowski
Section Four: Circus People and ShowmenIntroduction: Romani Groups in the Public Space of the Circus and Other Showgrounds by Malte GascheChapter 10 Travelling Cinema: When Roma Put the World within One’s Grasp by Laurence PrempainChapter 11 From Where They Were: Resistance by Romani Circus People during the Second World War by Laurence PrempainChapter 12 Cowboys and Indians: Wild West Shows as Portals to Exotic Otherness and the Big, Wide World by Malte Gasche
Afterword by Beatriz CarrilloBibliographyIndex

About the Author

Eve Rosenhaft is Professor of German Historical Studies, University of Liverpool. María Sierra is Professor of Contemporary History, University of Seville.

Reviews

'This is an outstanding collection of studies which demonstrate that European Romani groups historically made significant contributions to our common past as artists and activists, traders and musicians, mobile entertainers in circuses or pioneers of travelling cinema. Without hiding the effects of stigma these people suffer or downplaying the tragic consequences of the genocidal regimes of the twentieth century, the authors show that Roma were far from being passive victims of the societies they are part of; they pursue and succeed to realize their own ambitions. Some of the fine biographies in this volume remind us that even from a disadvantaged social position Roma acted also as cultural agents for the broader society co-producing European history.'
László Fosztó, ISPMN, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities