Staging Citizenship. Ioana Szeman

Staging Citizenship - Ioana Szeman


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successful television soaps Gypsy Heart, The Queen and State of Romania, and in talk shows and debates on current affairs programmes. It analyses Roma performances of citizenship in the media and their reception among different Roma.

       6. The Ambivalence of Success: Roma Musicians and the Citizenship Gap

      Focusing on musical performances as performances of citizenship, Chapter 6 discusses Roma musicians and their success in relation to the citizenship gap for Roma. The chapter discusses manele singer Florin Salam’s unsuccessful attempt to represent Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010, and Viorica and Ioniţă’s performances on the reality show Clejanii, in relation to both the citizenship gap and Roma counterpublics.

       Conclusion: Unlearning the Forgetting

      The conclusion discusses Hungarian Roma artist Tibor Balogh’s performance installation ‘Rain of Tears’ as a metaphor for the work that states and individuals alike need to undertake in order to close the citizenship gap for Roma.

      Notes

      1. All translations from the Romanian are mine, unless otherwise noted. I use the terms Rom (masculine singular), Roma (masculine plural), Romni (feminine singular) and Romnja (feminine plural) to describe individuals from this ethnic minority, and I also employ Roma as an adjective. I use Gypsy when discussing stereotypes in and from the West; Gypsy is also the term with which Roma in the United Kingdom identify, and does not necessarily denote a stereotype (Okely 1983). I use the nouns Ţigan (masculine singular), Ţiganca (feminine singular), Ţigani (masculine plural), Ţigănci (feminine plural) and the adjectival form Ţigan to describe local stereotypes and the way some Roma in Romania identify.


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