Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song

by Maureen Jackson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804797269
• ISBN13: 9780804797269
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"