The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey

ISBN-13: 9780199738762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 292 str.

Martin Stokes

Recenzje

“[A] subtle and thought-provoking study of the enormously popular pop genre arabesk…. Stokes has the rare ability to set small, even anecdotal cultural detail into a richly patterned context of great breadth. He circles around arabesk music in ever tighter spirals so that when we reach the heart of the matter we are amply informed and able to put the genre in perspective. Skillfully blending his own fieldwork experiences with the voices of Turkish musicians, he shows us how symptomatic-even constitutive-music can be of an entire society's cultural politics and dilemmas…. In this book it seems possible to combine a cultural studies eye for the larger system with the ethnographer's preoccupation for close observation and participation. Doubtless the book itself will now become an integral part of the controversy it describes, a process ever deepening the ethnomusicologist's involvement with the local society.”-American Anthropologist

O autorze

Martin Stokes is King Endward Professor of Music at King's College, London.