caa a22 4500 388112794 CHVBK 20180307125358.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0261143000008886 doi S0261143000008886 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0261143000008886 van de Port Mattijs The articulation of soul: gypsy musicians and the Serbian Other [Elektronische Daten] [Mattijs van de Port] In his Moeurs et Coutumes des Tziganes (1936), the French ethnologist Martin Block notices that when a Hungarian or Romanian feels sad, or when, on the contrary, he wants to celebrate, he needs Gypsy music to exteriorize the state of his soul. (Block 1936, p. 136) Block's conclusion that Gypsy musicians are in the business of articulating other people's ‘soul' confronts us with an intriguing conundrum. Given the fact that in eastern Europe, group boundaries between Gypsies and non-Gypsies are strictly defined and zealously kept up, one wonders how Gypsies would be able to articulate musically an intimate knowledge about their non-Gypsy customers. And why would Hungarians, Romanians - and, as I will argue in this paper, Serbs as well - need Gypsy musicians to ‘exteriorize their state of soul'? Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Popular Music Cambridge University Press 18/3(1999-10), 291-307 0261-1430 18:3<291 1999 18 PMU https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143000008886 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143000008886 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- van de Port Mattijs NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Popular Music Cambridge University Press 18/3(1999-10), 291-307 0261-1430 18:3<291 1999 18 PMU CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge