Belátás-irányok a roma jazz kutatása felé
Understanding Aspects to the Ethnospecific Researches on the Gypsy Jazz

Summary/Abstract: The early “research of Gypsies”, romology, then the visible and the hidden processes of “tziganology” in anthropology included a shift in the state of understanding between the hillside of critical interpretation studies and that of local group psychology. They also involved the research of folk tales, dancing, poverty, examining segregation and participatory action methodology as well as innovation and rebirth of the musicological research of Gypsy music. The terminological aspect of “us” and “others”, expressing alterity and identity, points towards the more complex study of (ethnic) “minorities”, moreover knowledge and field studies, and results of examining narratives (such as tales, dances, visual works of art, publicity, religion and community), bring us closer (by way of political and scientific pragmatism) to signalling a new era of empathic understanding. The aim of the paper is to highlight the ways leading to that goal, putting the musical aspects of the shift in focus, consisting of stylistic inventions, a world-music-based openness towards instruments and performance cultures, which nevertheless still carries the signs of a new era of projection and knowledge contents, first-person-narrative and narrative identities. Finding answers to the question “where did it come from” might be aided by contemplating “where does it go”. This would be both the aim and partially the structure of my thematic essay.

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