Mixing Musics - Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song

Zusatztext "By treating the private, discrete narratives of individual figures, this innovative book brings to life the nuances of daily existence and social accommodation in the musical culture of modern Turkish Jews. This refreshing approach provides new insights on topics that have been left unsaid by more conventional narratives about this subject." Informationen zum Autor Dr. Maureen Jackson is a research scholar of Jewish and Ottoman-Turkish Studies based in Seattle, Washington. Klappentext This book traces the mixing of musical styles across 20th and 21st-century Istanbul and argues that the Turkish and Ottoman Jewry formed a single genre. Zusammenfassung This book traces the mixing of musical styles across 20th and 21st-century Istanbul and argues that the Turkish and Ottoman Jewry formed a single genre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Mapping Ottoman Music-Making 2. Into the Nation: A Musical Landscape in Flux 3. The Girl in the Tree: Gender and Sacred Song 4. Staging Harmony, Guarding Community 5. Into the Future: Texts, Technologies, and Tradition Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: Maureen Jackson
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.07.2013
• EAN: 9780804780155
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8015-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism