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This book examines the significance of music in the construction of identities and ethnicities, and suggests ways to understand music as social practice. The authors focus on the role of music in the construction of national and regional identities; the media and 'postmodern identity'; concepts of authenticity; aesthetics; meaning; performance; 'world music'; and the use of music as a focus for discursive evocations of 'place'. The chapters tackle a wide range of subjects including 16th century etiquette, Celtic music and Chopin. The volume will be of interest to social anthropologists,...

At the heart of The Republic of Love are the voices of three musicians queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their fame and ubiquity have made them national icons but, Martin Stokes here contends, they do not represent the official version of Turkish identity propagated by anthems or flags; instead they evoke a much more intimate and ambivalent conception of Turkishness.
Using these three singers as a lens, Stokes examines Turkey s repressive...

At the heart of "The Republic of Love" are the voices of three musicians queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, "arabesk" originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their fame and ubiquity have made them national icons but, Martin Stokes here contends, they do not represent the official version of Turkish identity propagated by anthems or flags; instead they evoke a much more intimate and ambivalent conception of Turkishness.
Using these three singers as a lens, Stokes examines Turkey s repressive politics...

Popular culture serves as a fresh and revealing window on contemporary developments in the Muslim world because it is a site where many important and controversial issues are explored and debated. Aesthetic expression has become intertwined with politics and religion due to the uprisings of the "Arab Spring," while, at the same time, Islamist authorities are showing increasingly accommodating and populist attitudes toward popular culture. Not simply a "westernizing" or "secularizing" force, as some have asserted, popular culture now plays a growing role in defining what it means to be...