Turkish Folk Music between Ghent and Turkey - Context, Performance, Function - Liselotte Sels
Turkish Folk Music in a Transnational Context
Turkish Folk Music between Ghent and Turkey - Context, Performance, Function - Liselotte Sels
Liselotte Sels [+]
AP University College Antwerp
Liselotte Sels works as a research group coordinator and researcher at AP University College Antwerp, Belgium. She is also a harpsichord teacher and performer. Her research interests include Turkish music, Iranian music, music and diaspora, harpsichord music, and artistic research.
Liselotte received her PhD in Art Science from Ghent University in 2014. In 2015, she worked as a postdoctoral visiting researcher at UC Santa Barbara, supported by a BAEF fellowship. Her recent publications include the book chapter “Mixing Multiple Tracks: Migration, Diaspora and Transcultural Music in Flanders” in Made in the Low Countries (Routledge, 2017) and the article “EMRUZ | Nieuwe muziek in Iran” in FORUM+ (Amsterdam University Press, 2018).
Description
The Introduction briefly discusses the transformative top-down and bottom-up tendencies experienced by Turkish folk music throughout the twentieth century, points to the significance of migration for the chosen research field, reviews related existing literature, and introduces the applied methods and concepts.