Music - Memory - Minorities: Between Archive and Activism

What can music say about group specificity, especially the specificity of ethnic minorities? In this volume, the focus is on a distinctive aspect of minority culture - collective remembering. But that is not an imprint of the past: it emerges as an image created from the motifs of the past, but it is shaped by the needs and interests of the present, and various actors participate in its creation. Who are the actors and what images do they create if the medium of remembrance is music - a powerful medium that, thanks to its polysemantic character, allows to connect the realm of the individual and the collective, to represent communities or to rewrite group boundaries? The book Music - Memory - Minorities: Between Archive and Activism focuses on the musical memories of Roma and Jews. Apart from the individual cases, the texts as a whole form a remarkable arc that allows us to trace the role of music in the ethno-emancipatory process of minorities.