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Maureen Jackson - Mixing Musics - 9780804780155 - V9780804780155
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Mixing Musics

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Description for Mixing Musics hardcover. This book traces the mixing of musical styles across 20th and 21st-century Istanbul and argues that the Turkish and Ottoman Jewry formed a single genre. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DVT; HRJP; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.

This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It focuses on the Jewish religious repertoire known as the Maftirim, which developed in parallel with "secular" Ottoman court music. Through memoirs, personal interviews, and new archival sources, the book explores areas often left out of those histories of the region that focus primarily on Jewish communities in isolation, political events and actors, or nationalizing narratives. Maureen Jackson foregrounds artistic interactivity, detailing the life-stories of musicians and their musical activities. Her book amply demonstrates the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804780155
SKU
V9780804780155
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Maureen Jackson
Dr. Maureen Jackson is a research scholar of Jewish and Ottoman-Turkish Studies based in Seattle, Washington.

Reviews for Mixing Musics
"This remarkable book provides a 'thick description' of the social relations that produced this music . . . Jackson's eminently clear and graceful writing style will help to make the topic available to a wider readership in ethnomusicology as well as Middle Eastern and Judaic studies . . . [T]his book is both a remarkable snapshot of the situation of ... Read more

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