Life with music and pictures

Volume 6 of the Roma series is dedicated to the memory of Eva Davidova and her contribution to Romani Musicology and Ethnography. It presents a collection of articles of colleagues and friends of Eva Davidova who have cooperated and worked with her for approximately 50 years. The book contains articles with personal stories and scientific articles on Romani history, culture and education. The book also contains photographs of Roma children and families taken by Eva Davidova in 1950-s, 1960-s and 1970-s in former Czechoslovakia. The collection is useful for musicologist, ethnologist and everyone who is interested in Romani Studies. Contents: Stanislav Matulay: Eva Davidova – Czechoslovak Romologist - Ian Hancock: Points of departure: Routes of the ancestors out of India - Elena Marushiakova & Vesselin Popov: Migration, re-emigration and identities’ change: The case of one Roma group from USSR - Thomas Acton: The emergence of the Roma bourgeiosie and its response to challenges - Jana Horváthová: Jewellery of the Roma/Amare somnaka - Hristo Kyuchukov: Metaphors in Romani songs dedicated to Romani Genocide/Porrajmos - Łukasz Kwadrans: Romanis/Gypsies in the communist Czechoslovakia in Eva Davidova’s and other’s publications - Milan Samko: The Romani-Slovak bilingual child: a case study - Jaroslav Balvin: The phenomenon Eva Davidová – specialist and a human being - Appendix: Photographs taken by Eva Davidová.