Showing posts with label The Roads of the Roma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Roads of the Roma. Show all posts

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Contemporary authors, writers, songs, sites - and roots of bury me standing

Meet people and resources today - in addition to the "Zoli" website itself at ://www.colummccann.com/books/zoli.htm - Colum McCann, author.

1. Blog. An adult woman, NE US, on "Zoli" - a blog at //www.gypsygirlpress.net/gypsynews/labels/Zoli.html

2. Book, "Bury Me Standing, The Gypsies and Their Journey," by Isabel Fonseca, NY Vintage 1996 - from the Gypsy saying, apparently, "Bury me standing, I've been on my knees all my life."

See review at ://www.indiastar.com/wallia2.htm. Says that, as of 1996, 12 million Gypsies worldwide, 8 million in Europe. Fonseca is described as a journalist, American, had been asst. ed. of the "Times Literary Supplement."

3. See this Ratdog CD, a protest song, So - "Bury Me Standing" has legs. Lyrics at the Grateful Dead Lyric & Song Finder at //www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/introjs.htm?/~acsa/songfile/BURYMEST.HTM

4. Tales and Stories. Ilona Lakova, at the Journal of the Mythic Arts, News and Reviews, at Endicott, site at ://endicottstudio.typepad.com/endicott_redux/myth_folklore_fairy_tales/index.html

That site also lists as artists and story sources
  • "The Roads of the Roma," ed. Ian Hancock, Siobhan Dowd and Rajko Djuric
  • Louise Doughty
  • Margriet de Moor
  • "The Road That Has No End: Tales of the Traveling People" - article in the Endicott Archives