Turkish Folk Music between Ghent and Turkey - Context, Performance, Function - Liselotte Sels
Turkish Folk Music Events in Turkey and 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 5, as well as the next three chapters, takes a closer look at the forty-six Turkish folk music events attended during the period of systematic fieldwork in Turkey and Ghent. This chapter starts with a brief overview of traditional occasions for folk music performance in Turkish society, based on literature and observations. Its second part consists of ethnographic, comparative description and analysis of a meaningful selection of the attended Turkish folk music events, either occurring in both the homeland and the diasporic context, or inherent to one of the contexts.