This book, which brings together a selection of works by students, graduates and professors of the ITU Dr. Erol Üçer Music Research Center (MİAM), comprehensively covers current debates and research methods in the field of ethnomusicology. Consisting of 11 articles, this book brings together theoretical and methodological debates in ethnomusicology, examples of ethnomusicological field research, current issues in education and interdisciplinary studies.
The articles in the book reveal the dynamic and interdisciplinary structure of the discipline of ethnomusicology, while also making significant contributions to the following topics:
• The impact of music education on musicians' acculturation process and musical perceptions
• Makam music education during the pandemic period
• Embodiment processes in Indian classical music education
• Ethnomusicological field research methods
• Ethical discussions in ethnomusicological field research
• Experiences of producing sound compositions and listening together in city gardens
• Syrian musicians' street musician experience
• Symbolism in Mevlevi rituals
• Considering music performance as a type of translation
• Use of visual descriptions in the field of archaeological musicology
This book, which aims to contribute to ethnomusicology education and research in Turkey in particular, is an important reference source for academics, students and music lovers working in the field of ethnomusicology.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Bourdieu’s Sociology of Education and the Impact of Music Education on Acculturation
Suna BAŞLANTI
ITU Dr. Erol Üçer Center for Advanced Studies in Music
2. Experiences in Maqam Music Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yelda Özgen ÖZTÜRK
ITU Dr. Erol Üçer Center for Advanced Studies in Music
3. Some Basic Keys in the Use of Western Harmony in Hindustani Fusion
Dr. Leonardo García FUENZALIDA
Jazz Department of the High Studies Artistic Pole of Paris Boulogne-Billancourt (PSPBB)
4. Resonating Body: Embodiment Processes and the Role of Spiritual-/Religious Context in Learning Indian Classical Music
Aslı BÜYÜKKÖKSAL
5. Ethnomusicology at Home? Identity Issue and Emic-Ethic Approach in Ethnomusicology
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Uğur ASLAN
Trabzon University
6. Ethical Discussions in Ethnomusicology
Assoc. Prof. Dr. E Şirin ÖZGÜN
ITU Dr. Erol Üçer Music Advanced Research Center
7. Reflections on Urban Gardening Sound Art Projects 2012 - 2017: Social Composition
Dr. Jeremy WOODRUFF
8. Expression, Contact, Strategy: Syrian Musicians' Experience as Street Musicians
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Evrim Hikmet ÖĞÜT
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
9. Symbols and Meanings in Mevlevi Rituals in the Focus of Ruhi Ayangil's Meşk Group Studies
Elif ÖZEN
ITU Turkish Music State Conservatory
10. Music Performance as a Type of Translation 167
Gizem Nur ÇOPÇUOĞLU
ITU Dr. Erol Üçer Music Advanced Research Center
11. Use of Visual Descriptions in Archaeomusicology
Merve DOĞAN
Index
About the Authors
Suna Başlantı
She studied engineering at Istanbul Technical University and completed her master's degree in the same field. In 2019, she completed her master's degree in ethnomusicology at ITU Dr. Erol Üçer Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MİAM) with her thesis on soundscape and memory in the Eastern Black Sea Region. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis in ethnomusicology and working as a researcher on different projects. Her research and interests include sound studies, multi-species ethnography, acoustic archaeology and cultural geography.
Yelda Özgen Öztürk
She was born in Ankara. She took cello, chamber music and orchestra lessons at Istanbul University State Conservatory. She completed her undergraduate program in Mimar Sinan University Department of Mathematics in 1996. Özgen, who studied cello with Reyent Bölükbaşı at ITU Dr. Erol Üçer Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MİAM), received her master's degree in music in 2002 and her doctorate in 2009. He participated in international festivals such as the Istanbul Music Festival and Eskişehir Music Festival with the Anatolia Ensemble, and performed in important halls in Turkey and abroad. He took part in two CD works titled Anatolia and Aegean and Balkan Dances and Itri and Merag. He worked as a cellist in orchestras and ensembles such as Cemal Reşit Rey Symphony, Enka Sinfonietta and Aşkın Ensemble. He currently teaches cello as an associate professor at the ITU Turkish Music State Conservatory and continues his duties as the director of the ITU Dr. Erol Üçer Center for Advanced Studies in Music.
Leonardo García Fuenzalida
He graduated from the Western Flute Performance Department of the Music Institute of the Catholic University of Chile and the Generative Improvisation and Musical Acoustics Department of the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP), and completed his PhD in Sociology at the University of Paris-X. His research interests mainly focus on improvisation in modal music traditions, extended instrumental techniques and globalization in popular music. Leonardo, who is also an active musician, currently teaches at the Jazz and Contemporary Music Departments of Pôle Supérieur Paris BoulogneBillancourt (PSPBB).
Aslı Büyükköksal
A musician, sociologist and ethnomusicologist. She graduated from METU Sociology and ITU Dr. Erol Üçer Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) Ethnomusicology. During her violin education, she studied Classical Western, Istanbul Makam music and Classical Indian music under the guidance of Gülden Turalı, the principal violinist of the Istanbul State Orchestra, İhsan Aslan, Hasan Esen, Baki Kemancı, Dr. V. Balaji and Dr. Murat Gürel. She studied the Iranian percussion zarb with Manouchehr Fouladvand in Berlin. She completed her jazz harmony training with Güç Başar Gülle at the Modern Music Academy. Between 2007 and 2011, she went on a bicycle trip covering Eastern and Western Europe, Morocco, the Canary Islands and Turkey, and participated in festivals in Europe as a performing artist and musician during her travels. She followed the music therapy seminars organized by Tümata and actively participated in sema meetings. Living in Istanbul, Aslı continues her music studies with her academic identity as a performer, composer and writer in various music groups.
Uğur Aslan
She works as an assistant professor at the Department of Musicology at Trabzon University and teaches ethnomusicology courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. She completed her undergraduate and graduate education at the Department of Musicology at Dokuz Eylül University. In 2022, she completed her Doctorate in Music at the Istanbul Technical University Dr. Erol Üçer Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM). Her area of expertise is ethnomusicology, and she is particularly interested in organology, cultural studies of music, cultural geography, sound ethnobiology and ecomusicology.
E. Şirin Özgün
After graduating from Galatasaray High School and Boğaziçi University, Department of Sociology, she completed her MA and PhD in Ethnomusicology at ITU Dr. Erol Üçer Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MİAM). Her MA thesis titled “Drummer Women of Anatolia” is the result of a field study on the musical and ritual practices of women tambourines in Central Anatolia. Her PhD thesis titled “The Sounds of Political Actions in the Streets of Istanbul” is based on an intensive field research spanning three years by listening, recording and interpreting the sounds of protests in Istanbul. Özgün began working on the sound worlds of the Yörüks in 2018. She currently teaches ethnomusicology at MİAM and serves as the assistant director.
Jeremy.Woodruff
She is the Artistic Director at the Berlin School of Sound and an Assistant Professor at Bard College Berlin. Istanbul Technical University Dr. Erol Üçer has worked as a lecturer in Composition, Music Theory and Voice Studies at the Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) and in Composition at the KM Conservatory of Music in Chennai, India. His compositions and artistic works are in the fields of voice studies and ethnomusicology.