Roma Soul Food (ROMASOUL)

The ROMASOUL project brings together the music and cuisine of the Roma minority innovatively and creatively. Guided by the idea of a transnational connection of various actors from Serbia, Greece, and Slovenia, the project is gathered around the idea of safeguarding and promoting Roma culture and its diversity. Musicians, researchers, and activists from the Center for Popular Music Research/CEPOM from Serbia, EPEKA from Slovenia, and Qualia from Greece designed the ROMASOUL project to focus on presenting contemporary Roma culture as a very rich and dynamic phenomenon and to question the stigmatization of Roma people as invisible and marginalized by presenting their creative and everyday practices. With that aim, the ROMASOUL main outcome will be an innovative concept that connects music and cooking creatively and unusually – in the form of a music album. Furthermore, the result of the project will be also a digital audio-visual archive of culinary recipes recorded in the Romani language and its varieties. Through this project, we intend to explore and preserve Roma European oral culture, to show its diversity and potential that indicates the plurality and richness of European heritage. The project will contribute to the transnational connection of artists, researchers, and Roma communities engaged in the research and preservation of Roma heritage, as well as to the networking of different audiences. We intend to create the conditions for the realization of intercultural dialogue for the sake of a higher goal: creating an example of good practice that testifies to the importance of appreciation, understanding, and respect for diversity. By including talented musicians from different backgrounds, with their identity struggles and music creations, the project should emphasize the importance of social inclusion of the Roma population, i.e. members of the Roma population who are also members of other minority and marginalized groups (LGBT+ community).

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Združenje EPEKA

(Partner) Maribor

Vsi projekti slovenskega producenta

Tuji producenti pri podprtem projektu

Centar za istraživanje popularne muzike (leader)

Srbija
KOYALIA (partner)

Grčija (EU)

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