"Western Influences on Turkish Music before 1928.""Western Influences on Turkish Music before 1928."http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/123862Union Maccrate2010-02-22T16:30:002010-02-22T18:00:00
February 22, 4:30PM
Union Maccrate
Talk by John Morgan O'Connell, from Cardiff University, Wales, on "Western Influences on Turkish Music before 1928". This event will be held in MacCrate Recital Hall, Union, and is free and open to the public.
Description
John Morgan O'Connell, Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Cardiff University in Wales and a leading authority on Turkish vocal music, will be making two open class presentations on Monday, February 22 and Tuesday, February 23, both at 4:30 in MacCrate Hall (Union Music Building) as part of the bi-college Chamber Singers’ preparation for their forthcoming cultural exchange trip to Turkey. Both events are free and open to the public
O’Connell is co-editor of Music in Conflict: Ethnomusicological Perspectives (Illinois UP) and author of many articles on Middle Eastern topics. He is at present completing a book on the alaturka phenomenon in Turkey and publishing a monograph on the madôh tradition in Tajikistan.
His presentations at Haverford will concern reactions of Turkish vocal music to Western influences both before and after the Kemalist cultural reform program of the 1920’s. He has written “After the inception of the Turkish republic and the formulation of a suitable nationalist ideology, Turkish vocalists had to address the ideal of musical purity espoused in the dominant Republican perspective and determine acceptable limits of musical practice in light of a redefined Turkish identity….Such issues were at the heart of the discourse surrounding admissible artistic practices and acceptable aesthetic values…In short, vocal style provided a locus for debating larger social and political issues in Turkey during the early twentieth century.” (from “From Empire to Republic: Vocal Style in Twentieth-Century Turkey” in the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 6 – The Middle East, p. 781).
Prof. O'Connell's visit is sponsored by the Department of Music and the Distinguished Visitors Office
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