are primarily those used for the recruiting of soldiers by Austrian officials, who employed gypsy bands to entice the peasants from the fields to the Wirthshaus [tavern]. There they made their mark on a slip of paper, the significance of which they hardly will have realized, dazzled as they were by the gorgeous white unforms, seduced by the strains of the most interesting 'folk music' in Europe and plied with the local Tokay wine (Bloomington: Indiana Press, 1976, 3:433-444).
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