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Merih Erol - Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul: Nation and Community in the Era of Reform - 9780253018335 - V9780253018335
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Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul: Nation and Community in the Era of Reform

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Description for Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul: Nation and Community in the Era of Reform Hardback. Series: Ethnomusicology Multimedia. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 b&w illus., 8 audio. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; AVA; HBJF1; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 313 x 23. Weight in Grams: 564.

During the late Ottoman period (1856–1922), a time of contestation about imperial policy toward minority groups, music helped the Ottoman Greeks in Istanbul define themselves as a distinct cultural group. A part of the largest non-Muslim minority within a multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire, the Greek Orthodox educated elite engaged in heated discussions about their cultural identity, Byzantine heritage, and prospects for the future, at the heart of which were debates about the place of traditional liturgical music in a community that was confronting modernity and westernization. Merih Erol draws on archival evidence from ecclesiastical and lay sources dealing with understandings ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Ethnomusicology Multimedia
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253018335
SKU
V9780253018335
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99-50

About Merih Erol
Merih Erol is senior fellow at Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul. In 2014, she was Onassis Foundation Visiting Faculty in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Previously, she was a visiting scholar at Harvard and Princeton Universities, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and the Center for Advanced Study, Sofia.

Reviews for Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul: Nation and Community in the Era of Reform
This book . . . is a welcome addition to the field of Greek-Ottoman studies in the nineteenth century because it offers a sustained analysis of the much neglected theme of 'Greek-Orthodox' music in the troubled and complicated late Ottoman period.
Historein
Merih Erol's investigation of Greek Orthodox constructions of identity in the final decades of the Ottoman ... Read more

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