A voice of their own: Music and social cohesion in Turkish Alevi life

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" A voice of their own: Music and social cohesion in Turkish Alevi life "
Melanie Terner Pinkert Witzleben, J. Lawrence

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	804189
Doc. No	:	TL49011
Call number	:	‭1840191789;‮ ‬10159072‬
Main Entry	:	Islam, Naeyma Nahida
Title & Author	:	A voice of their own: Music and social cohesion in Turkish Alevi life\ Melanie Terner PinkertWitzleben, J. Lawrence
College	:	University of Maryland, College Park
Date	:	2016
Degree	:	Ph.D.
field of study	:	Music
student score	:	2016
Page No	:	358
Note	:	Committee members: Bates, Eliot; Provine, Robert C.; Rios, Fernando; Zilfi, Madeline C.
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-14064-4
Abstract	:	This dissertation examines the role that music has played in the expression of identity and revitalization of culture of the Alevis in Turkey, since the start of their sociocultural revival movement in the late 1980s. Music is central to Alevi claims of ethnic and religious difference—singing and playing the <i>bağlama</i> (Turkish folk lute) constitutes an expressive practice in worship and everyday life. Based on research conducted from 2012 to 2014, I investigate and present Alevi music through the lens of discourses on the construction of identity as a social and musical process.
Subject	:	Music; Middle Eastern Studies
Descriptor	:	Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Ethnicity;Identity;Religion;Revival
Added Entry	:	Witzleben, J. Lawrence
Added Entry	:	MusicUniversity of Maryland, College Park