Turkish Folk Music between Ghent and Turkey - Context, Performance, Function - Liselotte Sels
The Turkish Folk Music Network in Ghent
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 2 presents the current Turkish folk music network in Ghent, and highlights its different roles (commissioner, performer, listener, educator) by defining them, explaining their modalities, and portraying their institutional and individual representatives. Furthermore, it describes central places essential to Turkish folk music performance and education in Ghent. The data collection proceeded with the same methods as the first chapter.