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Music in Turkey: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)]

Music in Turkey: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)]

Bates, Eliot

Paperback

Series: Global Music

Music ReferenceWorld Music

ISBN10: 0195394143
ISBN13: 9780195394146
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 20 2010
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
** Music in Turkey is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. **

Music in contemporary Turkey is inextricably linked to the history of the Republic of Turkey and the complex histories of the Ottoman Empire and numerous other empires that preceded it. It is also an ideal avenue for introducing one of the most vibrant multicultural areas in the Middle East. Turkey is home to a rich variety of highly localized musical traditions--comprised of regional repertoires, instruments, performance practices, and dances--bound together by a strong sense of national identity. The first brief, stand-alone volume to explore the musical and cultural traditions of this region, Music in Turkey places the diverse sounds of the country (and the Middle East at large) in their social contexts.

Author Eliot Bates employs four themes in his survey of Turkish music:

* The role of music in forming a national consciousness about local and regional cultures

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