Turkish Folk Music between Ghent and Turkey - Context, Performance, Function - Liselotte Sels
Turkish Folk Music in Theory and Practice
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
Chapter 3 sketches a (selective-fragmentary) picture of what Turkish folk music in its modern, post-Atatürkian, form entails, focusing on general musical characteristics, genres and forms, regional styles, traditional performers, and thematic content. Excursions are a description of the music of Emirdağ, and an inquiry of the musical knowledge of the Turkish folk musicians in Ghent. The chapter is written on the basis of Turkish- and English-language, specific and general, academic and non-academic books and articles, complemented by ethnographic fieldwork, including formal and informal interviews.