What do we mean when we say "Roma (gypsy) music"? What do the musical forms emerging from diverse Roma communities have in common, and what separates them? In this episode, Joe Williams seeks answers to these questions, speaking to expert musicologists and luminary musicians to try and understand how and why Roma music varies across regions, ethnicities and cultures. This program features interviews with Slovak musicologist Jana Belišová, Hungarian violinist Kálmán Balogh, Serbian singer and composer Dragan Ristić and Turkish clarinetist Ramazan Sesler, and also includes several musical tracks.

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Joe Williams hosts a panel of authors from countries belonging to the former Yugoslavia who lived through the dissolution of the country. They discuss how they have sought to make sense of their experiences with the conflict by recreating them in their work, and they share insights on the capacity, and limitations, of literature for processing trauma and constructing healing, transformational narratives for the region. Featuring regional literary lights Ivana Bodrožić from Croatia (author of The Hotel Tito; program coordinator of the Zagreb Book Festival), Slovenian author Goran Vojnović (Southern Scum Go Home; Yugoslavia, My Fatherland) and Bosnian poet and author Faruk Šehić (Quiet Flows the Una, awarded the EU Prize for Literature).

You can also enjoy an excerpt from Yugoslavia, My Fatherland in Trafika Europe 5: Slovenian Interlude, and a full-length conversation with Goran Vojnović and translator Olivia Hellewell on his latest novel in English, The Fig Tree, as the 31 October 2021 episode of The Middle Ground on Trafika Europe Radio (52-minute audio). A generous excerpt from Faruk Šehić’s Quiet Flows the Una appears in Trafika Europe 7.

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In this episode, host Joe Williams explores new voices participating in Ireland's grand literary heritage – migrants to the country from all over, using literature to negotiate and make sense of their relationship with their new homeland. Joe talks to publishers and authors to understand how Ireland has changed in recent years and how writers born outside of Ireland are responding to the need for literature capable of documenting and engaging with the new Irish context and the experiences of those who exist within it.

Includes Pat Boran, Rafael Mendes, Mahito Henderson, Gonchigkhand Byambaa, and Neo Florence Gilson

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