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DRAWN TO GYPSIES.(Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France)(Book review)
Fernanda Eberstadt, an ambitious, resourceful novelist with a lush style and a Manhattan background, has written, in "Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France" (Knopf; $24.95), a piquant nonfictional account of her successful attempt to penetrate the Gypsy enclave of Perpignan. This city, at the eastern end of the Pyrenees, holds five thousand Gypsies in an urban center of around a hundred thousand. Eberstadt and her husband, Alistair Bruton, and their two small children found themselves living in a rented house outside Perpignan because Bruton, we are told a bit abruptly, "was writing a book about the decline of religion in modern ...
- Life among the Gypsies; In France, with the music and the passion.(BOOKS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times March 19, 2006 700+ words
...comes from Kalo, the Gypsy language in Spain...Early in her Gypsy encounters, the...impossible, since some Gypsies don't know the...Perpignan, Little Money Street. . . . If you want...sometime thing for Gypsy youngsters. "Nobody...Traditionally, Gypsies . . . were horse...
- Gypsy music: It's not just for brunch anymore.(Scene)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Katz, Larry October 12, 2001 700+ words
...to be gleaned from Gypsy Caravan 2. Wherever Gypsies have traveled, they...get hired by non-Gypsies. If there is a link uniting Gypsy musicians, it is a...called "Queen of the Gypsies" Esma Redzepova, Gypsy Caravan 2 will not...
- A Gypsy awakening.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 11, 1999 700+ words
...fighting for the Gypsies say that education...key. Too often, Gypsy children are automatically...liked to put out Gypsy children's eyes. Most Gypsies, however, never...victims, asked the Gypsies' forgiveness for...story''. No Gypsy was asked to testify...
- Vlach Gypsies of Hungary
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Stewart, Michael January 1, 1996 700+ words
...distinguishes Vlach Gypsies from other Gypsy groups in Hungary such...speaking "Boyash" Gypsies and Hungarian speaking...peasant" whether the non-Gypsy concerned is a peasant...otherwise employed. Non-Gypsies are known as "peasants...
- Bucking the Gypsy stereotype. (director Tony Gatlif's movie 'Gadjo Dilo')
- Magazine article from: Interview Fuller, Graham August 1, 1998 700+ words
...left Europe's growing Gypsy populations vulnerable...ethnic cleansing." Gypsies cast such a complex spell...married to a Belgian. (Gypsies may be clannish, but...dreams of leaving, so Gypsy-gadjo marriages are...doesn't idealize his Gypsies. They spit and curse...
- GYPSY WINS LANDMARK CASE IN HUNGARY.(News/National/International)
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) August 31, 1997 700+ words
...myself and not for gypsies generally because the gypsy community did not...president now of a gypsy organization I...how to help other gypsies. . . . Maybe now...of Hungary's gypsies are unemployed...life expectancy of gypsy men is 10 years...
- Gypsies face oppression, racism after fall of communism.(Originated from...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Fleishman, Jeffrey December 9, 1997 700+ words
...good Gypsy is a dead Gypsy.'' Such hostility...sent nearly 2,000 Gypsies to seek asylum in...avoid investigating Gypsy cases. The Romani...Initiative said 28 Gypsies have been killed...communists viewed Gypsies as ``socially weaker...bribed or forced Gypsy women into ...
- Gypsies tied to an age-old subculture
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Bill Brashler June 1, 1987 700+ words
...their bands. These kids are Gypsies, and for Gypsy boys and girls there can be...featured a segment on European Gypsies. It showed Gypsy children stealing wallets and purses in the streets and quoted Gypsies as saying theft is a way of...
