Little Money Street : In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France

ISBN
9780307279422
$14.00
Author Eberstadt, Fernanda
Format Paperback
Details
  • 8.0" x 5.2" x 0.6"
  • Active Record
  • Individual Title
  • Books
  • 2007
  • 272
  • Yes
  • AV RGCM JHBT JFSL
  • Print
  • 24
  • DX227.E34 2007
In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France -- a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a society made, in part, of lawlessness and defiance of non-Gypsy norms; and she met Mo se Espinas, the lead singer of the Gypsy band, Tekameli. As her relationship with the Espinas family developed over the years, progressing from mutual bafflement to a deep-rooted friendship, Eberstadt found herself a part of the captivating Gypsy life-a life rich with tradition and culture, but slowly being consumed by the modern world.