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Shukar Collective (from the Romani word Shukar or Şucar, meaning "beautiful") is a Romanian musical group which fuses traditional Romani and electronic music.It is especially known for using traditional rhythms employed by the Ursari section of the Roma minority with contemporary electronic sampling.
[1] [2] It was nominated for a Producers Guild of America award in 2012. [3] The film was featured in the New York Gipsy Festival [4] and is part of Vanderbilt University's Holocaust Lecture Series. [5] The film was shot in 11 different countries, [6] and is the first non-fiction documentary film to be dedicated to the Romani victims of the ...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - A supposed English Romani visits Thornfield Manor to tell fortunes, and the reactions of the guests there illustrate their characters as well as social attitudes. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë – Heathcliff perhaps might have been descended from Romani people and is often described as "dark" as or a "gypsy".
"Short People" is a song by Randy Newman from his 1977 album, Little Criminals. With lyrics demeaning to short people, the song was intended by Newman to be a satire about prejudice more broadly. [2] As with many of his songs such as "Rednecks", Newman wrote the song from the point of view of a biased narrator.
The issue here is that this term — the G-word — is more widely recognizable than the preferred term “Romani people” or “the Roma.” But when used by non-Romani people, the G-word is a ...
And the Violins Stopped Playing (Polish: I Skrzypce Przestały Grać) (1988) is a Polish/American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Alexander Ramati and based upon his biographical novel about an actual group of Romani people who were forced to flee from persecution by the Nazi Germany regime at the height of the Porajmos (Romani holocaust), during World War II.
Romano-tv (previously Manne-tv) [1] is a twelve-episode sketch-show based on common stereotypes and misconceptions the Finns have of the domestic Romani minority. It ran from June 2 to August 18, 2007 on Yle.
Romani people, or Roma, an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin Romani language, an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities; Romanichal, Romani subgroup in the United Kingdom; Romanians (Romanian: români), Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation