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eugene hutz
June 2009 
Madonna es Gypsy!
Posted on Jul 21st, 2008
by 
Alison Mackie
Alison Mackie
Madonna Kolpakov Ensemble&E
Every twenty five or fifty years Gypsy music becomes 'fashionable' again...
And when Madonna takes an interest in Gypsy music
it would seem to follow that many more in America will also.
I posted this picture in a blog on Myspace and the response
from younger American women to Madonna's Gypsy style reminded me
(in a different way but similar) to the way American women a generation
older took to Stevie Nicks who although did not perform with Gypsy musicians
like Madonna, sang a song about Gypsies, wore some Gypsy clothes,
and somehow in the process came to represent "Gypsy" for a great many in
America.
...Does it matter that neither woman is in posession of Gypsy DNA?
Not at all. It would seem that the symbolism is powerful enough on its own
, for some. There was a telling and great excitement surroun
ding this image...which I found on Vadim Kolpakov's very interesting and content rich website.
And when Madonna takes an interest in Gypsy music
it would seem to follow that many more in America will also.
I posted this picture in a blog on Myspace and the response
from younger American women to Madonna's Gypsy style reminded me
(in a different way but similar) to the way American women a generation
older took to Stevie Nicks who although did not perform with Gypsy musicians
like Madonna, sang a song about Gypsies, wore some Gypsy clothes,
and somehow in the process came to represent "Gypsy" for a great many in
America.
...Does it matter that neither woman is in posession of Gypsy DNA?
Not at all. It would seem that the symbolism is powerful enough on its own
, for some. There was a telling and great excitement surroun
ding this image...which I found on Vadim Kolpakov's very interesting and content rich website.
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Muro Shavo the original gipsy song..
MURO SHAVO....
I was playing the famous Gypsy song, Muro Shavo, on the stereo one day.
Loud!
The windows were open wide and so the sounds met with the ears of my neighbor, who worked in his garden.
Well!
Next thing I knew there was a loud rapping upon my door.
I opened it. It was my neighbor, spade in hand.
"What is that music you are playing?!" He demanded.
"Oh, is it too loud? I will turn it down for you happily," said I.
He shook his head, "No don't turn it down! What is it?"
And he smiiiiled.
I had never before seen this man smile. Ever!
"Its Gypsy music! You like?"
"I love!" He cried. "I've never before heard anything like it!"
You have to understand that his son had died in auto accident a few years before, and since that time, he had been walking around like a dead man.
But, when he heard the muscular and cheerful strains of Muro Shavo, the sounds traveled a straight path to his heart, piercing it, and creating within him a pleasurable rattling of joy, reminding him of the great beauty of life!
The power of Muro Shavo made part the clouds and a great light filled his spirit. He was alive! Muro Shavo!
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