Sounding Roman : representation and performing identity in Western Turkey / Sonia Tamar Seeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seeman, Sonia Tamar, 1958- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanies--Turkey--Music--History and criticism.

Romanies.

Music--Social aspects--Turkey.

Music.

Romanies--Turkey--Social life and customs.

Music--Turkey--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

'Sounding Roman' traces the role of music performance in maintaining, shaping, and challenging ascribed social identities of Roman ('Gypsy') groups, who constitute one of the most socially reviled and yet culturally romanticized minorities in Turkey.

Contents:

Prelude: Sounding social identity

Toward a history of social construction : the formation of Romani groups in the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires

Romani professional entertainers in the Ottoman Empire : melody players and merriment makers

Inscribing ðcingene in late Ottoman cultural forms

Exnominating Turk, hypernominating ðcingene : musical representations of ethnicity and Turkishness in the early republic

From ðcingene accompanist to instrumental soloist : the Roman stars

Recording Roman : sonic representations on 45 rpm recordings

The poetics of singing Roman : metaphoricity to mimesis in Roman dance songs

Presenting Turkish Roman : world music and musical cosmopolitanisms

Politicizing Roman and the folklorization of ethnicity

Conclusions and openings: The promise and limitations of musical plurality.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 14, 2020).

ISBN:

0-19-090829-7

0-19-085315-8

0-19-994925-5