Scope and Contents From the Collection:

William G. Lockwood collection of Romani Ethnology and Gypsy stereotypes contains several thousand books and periodicals, numerous visual depictions, over a thousand sound recordings, and several hundred examples of sheet music exploring the representation of Romani and Gypsy stereotypes. The William G. Lockwood Collection of Romani Ethnology and Gypsy Stereotypes is as geographically diverse as the Roma themselves, with publications from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

William G. Lockwood collection of Romani Ethnology and Gypsy stereotypes contains several thousand books and periodicals, numerous visual depictions, over a thousand sound recordings, and several hundred examples of sheet music exploring the representation of Romani and Gypsy stereotypes. The William G. Lockwood Collection of Romani Ethnology and Gypsy Stereotypes is as geographically diverse as the Roma themselves, with publications from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Scope and Contents The musical recordings from the William G. Lockwood Collection of Romani Ethnology and Gypsy Stereotypes date from 1912 to 1998. The collection follows a loose set of rules in which anything Romani related was added. If a song title or album name had the word "gypsy" in it, or any translation of the word such as "tzigane," "gitan," "cigány," “Zigeuner,” it would have been fair game for this collection. The artists are most often Romani themselves but they could also be singing about...