Carol Silverman
Carol Silverman has been involved with Romani culture for over forty years as a researcher, teacher, performer, and activist. An award-winning Professor Emerita of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore at the University of Oregon, she focuses on Balkan music, migration, and human rights issues among Roma. Based on fieldwork in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, New York, and Western Europe, her numerous articles analyze the relationship among music, politics, ritual and gender, via issues of representation and appropriation. Her 2012 book 'Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora' (Oxford), won the book prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology, and her 2021 book 'Balkanology' (Bloomsbury) traces the politics and artistry of Bulgarian wedding music. She works with the US NGO Voice of Roma, is curator for Balkan music for RomArchive.eu, and was recently elected to the Barvalipe Academy of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture.
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Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023). Anthropological histories of the COVID-19 pandemic exceed the virus and epidemiological trends. Although its catastrophes have escalated globally, they have not unfolded homogeneously. The intensities and […]
