In the film Latcho Drom, Tony Gatlif shows the migration of the gypsies from India to Europe as they take their music along with them; the music transforms as they move through time and place; In Crooks' film Siddhartha, based on Herman Hesse's novel, we see Sadhus singing and clapping - similar in sound and style to the Roma at the beginning of Gatlif's film. I'm trying to find out if anyone has written about the possibility the Roma were Indian Sadhus (or related to Sadhus) who were exiled or migrated from northern India about the time of the Buddha or earlier.
You have a book about this question: Santino Spinelli, Rom, questi sconosciuti. Storia, lingua, arte e cultura e tutto ciò che non sapete di un popolo millenario, Mimesis 2016. You can also see this web article: http://www.blitzquotidiano.it/opinioni/nicotri-opinioni/santino-spinelli-alexian-cantore-degli-zingari-sui-rom-si-lucra-da-anni-2048232/
My best regards.
Massimo Casagrande
Thank you, Massimo
I only wish I could understand the language
(I have taken lessons and visited Italy several times; I'm attracted to the language and the culture, but I couldn't understand the Spinelli text)
Jerry Flexer
I translated for you to google the most interesting part of the interview:
Journalist - What they were attended by Roma fashion and music? Django Reinhart was not a rom?
Santino Spinelli - The contribution of Romani communities in Europe from a musical point of view is remarkable. When the Romans music is merged into etnofonico heritage of host countries it has generated many new styles from Flamenco to Manouche jazz, Balkan music from the Czardas and Verbunkos the music of Eastern Europe. Also important is the instrumental contribution, from India or the homeland, the Romani population in Europe introduced the cymbalom that comes from Santur indopersian and which in turn generated the harpsichord, as well as from Zurla or Zurna, introduced by Roma Byzantine empire derive Ciaramella and Oboe. The Roman population is a great cultural and artistic reality made it for convenience of a few "social problem".
Thank you Massimo - I'm on the right track; I hope I can find some anthropological/historical research
grazie mille
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