TRADITIONAL HUNGARIAN ROMANI/GYPSY DANCE PRACTICES IN TRANSYLVANIA TO ROMANIAN ELECTRONIC POP-FOLK MUSIC

This fieldwork-based ethnochoreological study focuses on traditional dances of Hungarian Romani/Gypsy communities at interethnic Transylvanian villages in Romania practiced to electronic pop-folk music. In these communities not only the fashionable Romanian manele, but also their traditional csingeralcis, cigdnyos dance dialect is practiced to the mainstream electronic pop-folk music. Thus Romanian electronic pop-folk music including Romani/Gypsy elements provides the possibility of the survival of Transylvanian Hungarian Romani/Gypsy dance tradition both at community events and discoes. The continuity in the dance idiom is maintained through changes in the musical idiom a remarkable phenomenon, worthy of further discussion from the point of view of the safeguarding of the continuity of cultural tradition.