A voice of their own: Music and social cohesion in Turkish Alevi life
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Melanie Terner Pinkert
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Witzleben, J. Lawrence
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Maryland, College Park
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
358
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Committee members: Bates, Eliot; Provine, Robert C.; Rios, Fernando; Zilfi, Madeline C.
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-14064-4
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Music
Body granting the degree
University of Maryland, College Park
Text preceding or following the note
2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Music; Middle Eastern Studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Ethnicity;Identity;Religion;Revival