OBSERVATOR CULTURAL - Spiritul critic in actiune

Sumarul volumului 9/2002 al revistei European Meetings in Ethnomusicology editata de Marin-Marian Balasa propune cititorilor doua substantiale sectiuni: Transylvania: Music, Ethnicities, Discord si „Poland: Music, Lyrics, Nation“ in cadrul carora muzicieni din Romania si din strainatate semneaza interesante si avizate eseuri si studii culturale de etnomuzicologie comparata. Rolul traditiilor muzicale in constructia identitatii este abordat in textele lui Marin Marian-Balasa (Musics and Musicologies of the „Hungarian-Romanian Conflict“), Lynn Hooker (Transylvania and the Politics of the Musical Imagination), Zoltán Szalayi (Interethnical Conflict? Reflections on the Problems Deriving from the Vast Common Cultural Repertoire of the Cohabitation Ethnic Peoples in Transylvania, Timothy J. Cooley (Migration, Tourism, and Globalization of Polish Tatra Mountain Music-Culture), Craig Packard (A Research Agenda for Studying the Hungarian-Romanian Ethnomusicological Conflict: Visits by the Ethnic Police to North America), Philip V. Bohlman (The Place of Displacement – Polish Musics at Home and Beyond), Zamfir Dejeu (Cultural Connections within Traditional Music and Dance in Transylvania), Daniel Barolsky (Performing Polishness: The Interpretation of the Identity) etc.