In the census, the number of self-declared Roma was , out of a total population of 20,, 3. Furthermore, the chapters and epilogue presented in this collection also provide a critical assessment of one of the most significant social processes of our time: globalization and its enormous impact on culture. The relative outsider among us is Margaret Beissinger, an American who has repeatedly visited southern Romania for decades and has researched manele since the late s. The eyes of truth Celtic Rain She was serving, in , as a translator for a Romanian delegation of drivers sent to Denmark to learn about democratic institutions and was traveling in a tour bus with them when she suddenly realized that although she understood the Romanian lyrics of the songs piped into the bus, she was unacquainted with the genre.
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