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Rusted Root - Modern Gypsy Music

Filed in archive Modern Music on July 20, 2010

Rusted Root - Modern Gypsy Music
© Kind of Bruin

Gypsies and their mystical way of life seem to be a thing of the past, but their influence is still apparent in many things allover the world. The most apparent is their music with its heavy emphasis on percussion, string, and all things that jingle jangle. Its not uncommon to come across an artist reviving the sounds of the gypsies.

One band, Rusted Root, is a perfect example of Gypsy influence in modern music. The group has eight members - most of which are percussionists - all originating from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their sound is quite unique for this day in age since it draws so heavily from cultures that have long since passed. You may recognize the unique drum, tambourine, bell, and even rain stick arrangements as things you've heard from many historic peoples. But you've never heard it all brought together as well as Rusted Root does.

If you're looking for modern day gypsy music then Rusted Root is definitely a band you should consider giving a listen.

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Romani- The Gypsy Language

Filed in archive More Information on June 30, 2010

Romani- The Gypsy Language
© Alaskan Dude

What their religion has been to the Jews, that their language is to the gypsies- a bond of universal brotherhood as the gypsies everywhere speak the selfsame Romani chic( GYpsy tongue). In the gypsy Romani vocabulary ( five thousand words rich perhaps), besides the Indian element that constitutes its basis, there is also a large percentage of borrowed words- Persian, Armenian, Slavonic, Rumanian etc. Thus the English dialect has "ambrol" i.e., pear, ( Persian amrud) , "grasni" mare i.e., ( Arm: "grast"- beast of burden) "parmiseri" (Mod Gr. paramu- the story), "vari"- any ( Rum: vare); and stiffipen i.e., sister-in-law ( Ger: stief). These words and the like are a record of the route by which the English Gypsies arrived in England;and as the fifty Greek and the thirty Slavonic words outnumberall the other borrowed words put together, it follows that the gypsy history tarried longest in the Greek and Slavonic lands.

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Gypsies-A Wondering Race

Filed in archive More Information on June 30, 2010

Gypsies-A Wondering Race
© Robert the Noid
There is the Tamerlane theory of Grellmann (1783), according to which the Gypsies first reached Europe in 1417. This Gypsy history is disapproved by firmly established facts. There is the Behram Gur Theory of Pott and Batillard (who later relinquished it) developed in 1844-49 and adopted by Newbold, Sir Henry Rawlinson, De Goeje, Sir Richard Burton and an Edinburgh Review(July 1878). According to this theory, about 420 A.D. Behram Gur imported 12000 jet minstrels from India to Persia, and their descendants gradually wandering westward, entered Europe in 1025 or as late as the beginning of the 14th century. Plausible and it may be containing a modicum of truth. This theory fails as in the marked unlikeliness of Jatali, the language of the Jats, and Romani, the language of the Gypsies. Lastly attempts have been made on this ground for the most of the similar habit of life, to identify the Gypsies with various Indian vagrants.
Original gypsy music, also known as Romani music has become relatively rare.

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Gypsy music is in vogue

Filed in archive Traditional Gypsy Music on June 9, 2010

Gypsy music is in vogue
© mikebaird

To know the answer of the question "what is the best guitar to play gipsy jazz?" , one surely need to know what gipsy jazz is actually all about. Gypsy jazz, a form of gipsy music is sometimes being popular as gypsy swing. The term was coined by the famous guitar player Django Reinhardt in the year 1930. As Django was a French guitarist, this genre of music is described by the French name 'Jazz manouche' or 'Manouche jazz'. This fabulous style of music became hugely popular in french gypsy musicris, and the performers of this genre by and large performed in popular Musette ensembles. In the realm of gypsy jazz, the Musette style waltz makes up a very important element. Django Reinhardt put together a dark gypsy flavor along with the fresh swing articulation of that time. This particular sort of jazz is known for this combination. The modern day guitar used for gypsy jazz makes use of this element as its platform.

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