Bosnia and Herzegovina · Music
The Time of the Gypsies
Goran Bregović · 1988
Bregović's score weaves Romani brass, Orthodox liturgy, and Balkan wedding lament into a sound that refuses border lines, much as Tănase moved between Aromanian, Romani, and Romanian sources without academic embarrassment. The score argues that the diasporic ear is the truer cartographer of the region than any nation-state.