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- Title
The soul danced into the body: Nation and improvisation in Istanbul.
- Authors
Bryant, Rebecca
- Abstract
Examines the politics and practices of apprenticeship in the traditional Turkish folk music of baglama or saz. Contention of the author that the saz has become iconically representative of a folk music collected and preserved in the era of nationalism; Analysis of the meaning of such a self-conscious and reflexive tradition's claims to traditionality; Ways in which that tradition is acquired as an aesthetics of self where one consciously shape the self to become the type of person who can play the saz.
- Subjects
FOLK music; FOLKLORE; NATIONAL music; NATIONALISM in music; SAZ; BAGLAMA; TURKISH musical instruments
- Publication
American Ethnologist, 2005, Vol 32, Issue 2, p222
- ISSN
0094-0496
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1525/ae.2005.32.2.222