Life with Music and Pictures:
Eva Davidová’s Contribution to Roma Musicology and Ethnography
Hristo Kyuchukov,Jaroslav Balvin,& Lukasz Kwadrans (eds.)
University of Silesia; Tomaš Bati University; University of Silesia
Volume 6 of the Roma series is dedicated to the memory of Eva Davidova and her contribution to Romani Musicology and Ethnography. It presents a collection of articles of colleagues and friends of Eva Davidova who have cooperated and worked with her for approximately 50 years. The book contains articles with personal stories and scientific articles on Romani history, culture and education. The book also contains photographs of Roma children and families taken by Eva Davidova in 1950-s, 1960-s and 1970-s in former Czechoslovakia. The collection is useful for musicologist, ethnologist and everyone who is interested in Romani Studies.
Contents:
Hristo Kyuchukov
Preface: life with music and pictures
Hristo Kyuchukov
Who is Eva Davidová
Jitka Vacková
Eva Davidová
Adam Bartosz
Our Evička
Stanislav Matulay
Eva Davidova – Czechoslovak Romologist
Will Guy
Eva Davidova: Amari phen Evička (Our sister Eva)
Ian Hancock
Points of departure:
Routes of the ancestors out of India
Elena Marushiakova & Vesselin Popov
Migration, re-emigration and identities’ change:
The case of one Roma group from USSR
Thomas Acton
The emergence of the Roma bourgeiosie and its response to challenges
Jana Horváthová
Jewellery of the Roma/Amare somnaka
Łukasz Kwadrans
Romanies/Gypsies in the communist Czechoslovakia
in Eva Davidova’s and other’s publications
Milan Samko
The Romani-Slovak bilingual child: a case study
William New et al.
Face-to-face with the unthinkable:
Intercultural/genocide education concerning the Roma
Jaroslav Balvin
The phenomenon Eva Davidová – specialist and a human being
Appendix:
Photographs of Roma children by Eva Davidová
ISBN 9783862889105. Roma 06. 176pp. 2019.
