A voice of their own: Music and social cohesion in Turkish Alevi life
[Thesis]
Melanie Terner Pinkert
Witzleben, J. Lawrence
University of Maryland, College Park
2016
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Committee members: Bates, Eliot; Provine, Robert C.; Rios, Fernando; Zilfi, Madeline C.
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-14064-4
Ph.D.
Music
University of Maryland, College Park
2016
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 bağlama (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.
Music; Middle Eastern Studies
Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Ethnicity;Identity;Religion;Revival