---

Overview | Inventory | History | Using The Collection

---

Overview

The George Batyi Romani Music Collection contains fifty audio recordings (LPs, 78s, CDs, audiocassettes), and nine publications of notated music that document the Slovakian and Hungarian Romani styles of Batyi's heritage, as well as other styles such as Gypsy Jazz, Russian "Gypsy" Romances, and Balkan brass band traditions.

Inventory

The George Batyi Romani Music Collection contains one linear foot of material and is divided into two series: audiovisual material and sheet music. A PDF inventory of the Batyi Collection is available. A digital collection of items in the Collection is also available; this digital collection grew out of a fall 2017 course at Oberlin College taught by Dr. Ian MacMillen titled "Roma, Gypsies, Travelers" (REES261), and includes additional materials that are not part of the Library’s Collection, including oral history interviews with George Batyi, musicians with whom he recorded, and other Romani Americans connected to these communities and performance networks in Northeast Ohio.

History

George Batyi was born in Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1959 and has been playing the violin since the age of ten. He has toured throughout the U.S., and he currently leads a band called "Gypsy Stringz." Batyi donated the Collection to the Oberlin Conservatory Library in April 2016, facilitated by Dr. Ian MacMillen and Liliana Milkova.

Administrative Info

Restrictions: Collection is open for research. To request access to the Collection, contact Conservatory Library special collections staff at: con.special@oberlin.edu

Rights: The copyright interests in this collection may not have been transferred to Oberlin College.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], George Batyi Romani Music Collection, Oberlin Conservatory Library