E-raamat: Princes Amongst Men

Get on board for a wild road trip with the best soundtrack ever -- Cerys Matthews A classic book by my favourite expert on Balkan music; a must for the shelves of any music buff -- Joe Boyd The best book yet written about the Gypsies. Tough, entertaining, informative and refreshingly free of the bullshit outsiders often bring to the subject. A real achievement -- Professor Ian Hancock Cartwright's soulful, exuberant writing is the perfect match for his soulful, exuberant subject. Princes Amongst Men is vital reading for lovers of Romani - or any - music -- Rosie Schaap author of The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country A revelation... A perennial portrait of some of the great personalities of Roma music. Through them, Cartwright shows how music-making really is soul-making. Tracing the long journey of the Roma through migration, Holocaust, forced sedentarisation and the discrimination and racism of the settled ones, he tells of how Roma music art still runs like an underground pulse through a devitalised Europe. In doing so, Cartwright has written an ode to the last of the free. An eye-opening and memory-awakening book that puts the unjustly marginalised genius of the Balkan Gypsies where it belongs - at the heart of the European experience -- Kapka Kassabova author of The Balkan Quartet