Wide-ranging, irreverent and humorous, packed with fascinating - and sometimes tragic - details on lands and people who are rarely heard from.

Princes Amongst Men is the only book to provide an overview of Gypsy music across the Balkans, documenting remarkable artistry in former Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria. It is also the only travelogue available through terrain many consider to be Europe's 'Badlands', covering ghettoes and villages, railways and motorways, weddings and funerals, festivals and dive bars.

No other writer has emulated the spirit of Jack Kerouac on the Balkan roads, in search of adventure, artistry and romance.

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By Garth Cartwright







Princes Amongst Men is vital reading for lovers of Romani - or any - music]]>



is soul-making. Tracing the long journey of the Roma through migration, Holocaust, forced sedentarisation and the discrimination and racism of the settled ones, he tells of how Roma music art still runs like an underground pulse through a devitalised Europe. In doing so, Cartwright has written an ode to the last of the free. An eye-opening and memory-awakening book that puts the unjustly marginalised genius of the Balkan Gypsies where it belongs - at the heart of the European experience]]>