Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church is a musical ethnography of a religious community.
After the end of socialism, different ethnic groups in Hungary harbored antagonism toward one another. In one Pentecostal
church in Pecs, Hungary, however, both Hungarians and Roma (Gypsies) worshipped and made music together. Three
musical repertoires coexisted, each with a separate historical background and complex social meanings: Romani religious
song; nineteenth-century gospel hymns originally from the United States; and contemporary Christian pop from the
United States. Church members accommodated cultural and musical differences by developing several distinct performance
styles.