The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey
- Author: Stokes, Martin
Martin Stokes takes this contentious genre of music as his focus, and explores themes relating to music and the construction of social meaning. His fascinating and wide-ranging study is based...
The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey
- Author: Stokes, Martin
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Martin Stokes takes this contentious genre of music as his focus, and explores themes relating to music and the construction of social meaning. His fascinating and wide-ranging study is based...
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The Arabesk Debate describes the way in which Turkish musicians discuss, dispute, and attribute meanings to their music. Martin Stokes examines the debate over 'Arabesk', a musical genre popular throughout Turkey. His book is an ethnographic study of urban music-making in Istanbul, focusing on the activities of professional musicians and their audiences in the city. Dr. Stokes looks at the Arabesk debate in the context of state cultural politics, Islam, and the experience of urbanization in Turkey. Within this context he discusses the role of the media, music education, the technology of popular music-making, the construction of gender and the emotions through musical performance, and concepts of musicianship in Turkish society. In looking at the interplay between national cultural politics and urban music-making at a local level, this book challenges both 'mass culture' theory and more general assumptions about the study of music in society.
Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction to the 2020 Edition
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Discovering the Folk and Their Music
- 3. Rule, System, and Technique: Reconstructing Turkish Folk Music
- 4. Arabesk
- 5. Arabesk Lyrics and Narratives
- 6. The Musical Organization of Arabesk
- 7. Arabesk and Sema
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Bibliography
- Glossary of Musical Terms
- Index
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Martin Stokes takes this contentious genre of music as his focus, and explores themes relating to music and the construction of social meaning. His fascinating and wide-ranging study is based on extensive fieldwork in Istanbul during the late 1980s. He draws on an impressive range of scholarly sources within the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, and popular music and Middle Eastern studies.... Impressive, intelligent, enjoyable and informative, a valuable addition to the small number of studies on popular music to be found within the field of ethnomusicology
